Midnight Run
It’s a curious thing to come to a stone-cold comedy classic, well, cold. Having never seen it before I had heard very many great things about the characterisation, script and plot. Basically I’d heard it […]
Blu-Ray review
Midnight Run
Mr Turner
There was a lot of furious rumblings around awards season when this Mike Leigh biopic about painter J.M.W. Turner was passed over for gong nomination. But having watched it, I really can’t see what the […]
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
This new Blu-Ray release of the original 1962 film is a revelation – mostly in relation to the acting chops of Frank Sinatra. He is the not the only star of the film but is […]
Goldfinger
Goldfinger was the third in the James Bond sequence of films and is possibly the most quintessentially Bond of all of the book adaptations. It’s also, arguably, the best. It is in structure actually one […]
Blanche
This curiously uninvolving movie is beautifully shot. Blanche is a lusty, medieval tale of three different but stupid men all wanting to get their end away with an equally dim woman. This is probably why the […]