Views from Filmland ….
On This Day ……. On the 23rd of August 2014, Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie were married in Correns, southeastern France. The village in the
Happy Birthday ……. Today would have marked the 96th birthday of English actress Honor Blackman. Born on 22nd August, 1925, the star who died in
Please meet Adèle Blanc-Sec, adventurer, travel writer and, let’s be honest, general trouble maker. Her publishers have sent her to South America for her latest assignment. However
If you like your vampire films rare and bloody, then Stake Land is for you. Rare in that there isn’t a conventional fanged fiend in
Valerie (Amanda Seyfried), lives with her family in the village of Daggerhorn, a beautiful European town, nestling amongst pine forests, lakes and vertiginous mountain ranges.
Clive Barker’s brand of horror is hard to define. Falling somewhere between the popular pulp of Stephen King and the more erudite terrors of Peter Straub,
If you’re not a fan of Alfred Hitchcock then it might be best to shut off now. Responsible for some of the 20th century’s most
There was a time in cinema when films didn’t depend on copious amount of CGI and special effects to make an impact. Instead they made their
The Sigil is a pseudo horror film, masquerading under the false impression it is scary, when in-fact its about as frightening as an episode of
If – like I initially did – you think you are going to enjoy a remastered edition of Vincent Price’s 70s camp classic Madhouse,
The BFI continues its Gothic season, with three new collections from the BBC archives. There is nothing better as the Christmas season approaches than
I’ve never been a advocate of the ‘moody’ school of acting, an approach taken to new heights by Daniel Craig in the lukewarm chiller
Screen & Gone 