BFI GOTHIC DVD’s
The BFI continues its Gothic season, with three new collections from the BBC archives. There is nothing better as the Christmas season approaches than to settle down [...]
Reviews
Everything Must Go (2010)
Like the life of Nick Porter (Will Ferrell), the central character round whose midlife crises Everything Must Go revolves, the directorial debut from Dan Rush ambles [...]
Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films (2014)
For anyone who came of cinematic age during the heady days of cheesy 1980s cinema, Electric Boogaloo: The Wild, Untold Story of Cannon Films – the documentary by [...]
The Bodysnatcher (1945)
Wolfe ‘Toddy’ MacFarlane (Henry Daniell), a renowned and highly respected doctor in Victorian Edinburgh, takes medical student Donald Fettes (Russell Wade) under [...]
MATCHING JACK (2010)
You feel bad disparaging a film like Matching Jack, the drama by award winning director Nadia Tass, and starring such an impressive cast of luminaries as James Nesbit (The [...]
To Walk with Lions (1999)
To Walk with Lions is one of those films which leaves you feeling bad if you’re not enthusiastic about it. Directed by Carl Schultz and starring Richard Harris, [...]
Cathedrals of Culture (2014)
When six world renowned filmmakers – including Robert Redford and the late Austrian director Michael Glawogger – were asked to make short films for a [...]
The Sigil (2012)
The Sigil is a pseudo horror film, masquerading under the false impression that it is scary, when in-fact its about as frightening as an episode of the children’s TV [...]
Wizards (1977)
Following the death of their beloved mother, two wizard brothers – the good Avatar (Bob Holt) and the evil Blackwolf (Steve Gravers) – are pitched into a [...]
La Belle et la bête (1946)
Aficionados of the ‘Eurohorror’ film – which, for much of the time encompasses those made post 1960, and which frequently focus heavily on stylised gore [...]
The Black Cat (1981)
Professor Robert Miles (Patrick Magee) has a love hate relationship with his pet black cat, a feline predator with an unnatural hold over its owner. However, it’s [...]
The Ones Below (2015)
Justin (Stephen Campbell Moore) and Kate (Clémence Poésy) live a seemingly idyllic lifestyle. With a beautiful London flat, rewarding, high powered jobs and a baby [...]
