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 […]
Reviews
Georgy Girl (1966) the good, bad and ugly of Swinging 60’s London (Review)
The Tree of Life (2011) A film we’ll never stop talking about (Review)
The Blood Of Hussain (1980) a mesmerising piece of cinema (Review)
Jamil Dehlavi’s The Blood of Hussain is an allegorical tale of revolt against tyranny and oppression in 1970s Pakistan. It takes place during the annual mourning procession for Hussain, grandson of the prophet Muhammad, who was slain for his refusal to recognise Yazid ibn Muawiya, the Umayyad Caliph, as his leader […]
Invention for Destruction (1958) One of the finest pop-up books in cinema history (Review)
Project A (1983) & Project A II (1987) Jackie Chan, the Cinephile (Review)
Gas Food Lodging (1992) a quintessential 2018 indie movie made in 1992 (Review)
Hitler’s Hollywood (2017) Modern History and it’s cinema’s darkest days (Review)
What do you think of when you think of Nazi-era German cinema? Leni Riefenstahl filling the screen with crowds cheering Hitler, or the explicitly anti-Semitic likes of Jud Süß and The Eternal Jew? Perhaps you think of Quentin Tarantino’s literal and figurative massacre of the industry in Inglourious Basterds, and […]