The press release that accompanied this indie sci-fi film heralds it as the best since Moon (Duncan Jones, 2009). That film, a decade ago, reminded us exactly what sci-fi is all about. Taking a human circumstance, and imagining what toll the future takes upon it. Prospect (directed by Christopher Caldwell […]
Mick Snowden
Cujo: Supernatural Canine you probably misremembered (Review)
Ikarie XB-1 (1963): The best Space & Soap Opera you’ve never seen (Review)
Elvira Mistress of the Dark (1989) the highest of high camp comedy-horror (Review)
A Raisin In The Sun (1961) a call to arms for the downtrodden, hardworking majority (Review)
With a screenplay by the original playwright (Lorraine Hansberry), and featuring Sidney Poitier, a debut from Louis Gossett Jr, and a powerful cast of African-American performers, A Raisin In The Sun provides us with a kitchen-sink drama for the Civil Rights movement. Set in Chicago, and based on Hansberry’s 1959 […]
The Uninvited (1944) a Chiller… but not like we know it (Review)
The Uninvited is a curious supernatural “thriller”, set on the southwest coast of England. The film is Lewis Allen’s adaptation of a Dorothy Mcardle story (Uneasy Freehold), in which composer Rick Fitzgerald (Ray Milland), and his sister Pamela (Ruth Hussey), fall in love with an old, mouldering property whilst holidaying […]