The Car, director Elliot Silverstein’s ‘cult horror’ (and I use both words in their loosest sense), starring James Brolin, Kathleen Lloyd, John Marley and
Author: Cleaver
I'm a journalist and film critic based in London. I'm currently the News Editor of Flickfeast, for which I also review new film releases. In addition I review films, do features and interviews and cover festivals for various other magazines and on-line publications. I've created the Screen & Gone blog, so I can share my thoughts and bring a new perspective to films, old and new, which may have passed you by.
FEATURE – MARILYN MONROE, A CANDLE IN THE WIND!
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” Marilyn Monroe was a woman who clearly practised
Comedown (2012)
Comedown (2012), the indi-Brit horror from director Menhaj Huda starring Jacob Anderson, Sophie Stuckey and Geoff Bell, is reminiscent (one imagines) of a bad ‘trip’
The Comeback (1978)
The Comeback is a delightfully grimy and atmospheric experience. One of the last films by Britain’s ‘King of Sleaze’ Pete Walker – only Home Before
FEATURE – ESCAPE ARTIST, THE LIFE OF DOUGLAS SIRK
“This, anyhow, is what enchants me about Sirk: this delirious mixture of medieval and modern, sentimentality and subtlety, tame compositions and frenzied CinemaScope.” The above
FEATURE – CARY GRANT, MR METROSEXUAL
If one man epitomised cinema’s idea of sophistication, it was surely Cary Grant; it could be said Grant invented metrosexuality before modern day stars
FEATURE – THE GANG’S ALL HERE
World War II was a buoyant time for the cinema industry, particularly in America. In order to forget the horrors which were ripping the world
Inseparable (2011)
Sometimes you really have to question the aim of a film. Inseparable (2011), written and directed by Dayyan Eng and starring Kevin Spacey, Daniel Wu
EXPERIMENT UNDER LONDON (1961) – The British Transport Films Collection, Vol. 11
Experiment Under London (1961), released by the BFI as part of their British Transport Films Collection, is an example of what the Institute does best
Hell (2011)
Hell (2011), the Sci-fi / horror from producer Roland Emmerich and director Tim Fehlbaum, is aptly named. For the viewer, to watch this film
Parkland (2013)
Even in today’s culture of mass produced film fodder, something occasionally appears which reignites your passion for one of the basic fundamentals at the
NEWS FLASH!
Marcia Do Vales, star of recent British zombie comedy Ibiza Undead (2016), is set to scare again in a new supernatural chiller which will start
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