The Grand Budapest Hotel is a film which lives up to its name and appearance – big, brash, overblown and full of its own self-importance. This is not to say that the [...]

Some films are simply a joy to watch. Jan Morrow (Doris Day) is a successful interior designer with a wonderful job, beautiful Manhattan apartment and men falling over [...]

Right from the outset one has to point put that there is really nothing to disappoint where Disney’s real-life film Cinderella is concerned. This is probably because the [...]

Prepare to swash your buckles, or whatever dashing matinee idols do these days. Directed by Resident Evil’s (2002) Paul W S Anderson, and starring Ray Stevenson, Luke [...]

It’s hard to categorise a film like The Erotic Films of Peter de Rome, released by the BFI for the first time on DVD in 2012, to coincide with the LLGFF. British born, [...]

The Machine, is a terrifying vision of a world perhaps not that far in the future. Directed and written by Caradog W James and starring Toby Stephens, Caity Lotz and Denis [...]

  Familiarity, they say, breeds contempt, as with the legend that is A Nightmare on Elm Street. There have been nine entries in the iconic series to date, becoming [...]

Apocalypse Z (2013) (also known as Zombie Massacre) makes Brad Pitt’s mega-buster World War Z (2013), which tried manfully to transpose the walking dead to the [...]

In the late 1970’s and early 80’s glossy Hollywood horror, though having its fair share of big budget shocks, frequently favoured a subtler, psychological [...]

Almost forty years after its first release, Shivers is still difficult to watch. Even for a director as renowned for his bizarre visions as David Cronenberg, his first big [...]

Nowhere to Go, starring George Nader, Maggie Smith and Bernard Lee, and directed by the legendary Seth Holt, is a film which still packs a punch almost sixty years after its [...]

The essence of some films is captured perfectly in their name. Take Rough Cut, the pseudo documentary about the making of a fictional horror movie called ‘Hiker [...]