Movie Review – Kind Hearts And Coronets

Kind Hearts And Coronets UK (1949) Dir. Robert Hamer Murderers. Nasty, evil, black hearted people with no regard for human life other than their own, twisted and depraved in their thinking. Or are they actually clever people with a low tolerance for the stupid and worthless, whose corrupt genius and confidence in their ability to …

Movie Review – Two Way Stretch

Two Way Stretch UK (1960) Dir. Robert Day You can’t be in two places at once - unless you are an alien able to create some kind of spiritual teleportation of yourself and have it project in a different location to the one you are currently in. Or you could build a robot twin of …

Movie Review – The 39 Steps

The 39 Steps UK (1935) Dir. Alfred Hitchcock It’s been a while since I’ve seen a Hitchcock film and this came on the TV despite the DVD sitting on top of my player for the past two years. Anyway, my limited knowledge of this film has always been from the 1978 remake with Robert Powell …

Movie Review – Rocky II

Rocky II US (1979) Dir. Sylvester Stallone In 1976, a relative nobody wrote a script about an underdog boxer shocking the world that nobody wanted to make. The film itself was an underdog, originally felt to be a flop that another film would absorb with its success. Instead, nobody remembers New York, New York but …

Movie Review – I’m All Right Jack

I'm All Right Jack UK (1959) Dir. John Boulting “You appear to do more work when you’re on strike!” With Britain currently in the grip of strike fever and the Tory government, unwilling to meet the demands of the disgruntled workers, remaining curled up in their comfy ivory towers subsidised by the tax payer, the …

Movie Review – The Italian Job

The Italian Job UK (1969) Dir. Peter Collinson “You’re only supposed to blow the bloody doors off!” Now I’ve got that out of the way, it is time to find out if this classic crime caper has more to offer than one of the most iconic one-liners in cinema history. Given its legendary status and …

Movies Review – Back To The Future Trilogy

Back To The Future Trilogy US (1985-1990) Dir. Robert Zemeckis Disclosure - ITV ran all three BTTF films this week as part of its Christmas line-up which I hadn’t intended to watch, but you know how it goes. It’s been a while since I’d seen these films so I did revisit them, which I will …

Movie Review – Rocky

Rocky US (1976) Dir. John G. Avildsen It’s funny, if you watch a classic film from before 1970, for the first time and nobody will bat an eyelid - in fact, they may even congratulate you for finally seeing these esteemed masterpieces. Watch one from the past 50 years for the first time however, and …

Movie Review – A Matter Of Life And Death

A Matter Of Life And Death UK (1946) Dirs. Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger Until we die, we will never know if there is an afterlife, or “heaven”, leaving us at the mercy of religious scriptures and the imagination of the arts to paint a picture of what it might be like. The one constant …

Blu-ray Review – Silent Running

Silent Running (Cert U) 1 Disc Blu-ray/4K UHD/2 Discs Ltd Edition Deluxe Steelbook UHD (Distributor: Arrow Video) Running Time: 90 minutes approx. As the saying goes “Those who ignore history are doomed to repeat it”, so why is it that nobody took notice of what was being said in this 1972 sci-fi film about the …