If you’re a man of a certain age who remembers getting strange feelings when their parents let them watch the dinosaur movie on TV, then you already know whether or not you should buy StudioCanal’s Blu-Ray of One Million Years B.C. Don Chaffey’s film has an iconic stature for a […]
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Scott of the Antarctic (1948) A timelessly charming tale of survival (Review)
Ealing proving once again that didn’t just deal in black comedies concerned with a brand of pure Britannia that has since been consigned to history with Studio Canal’s release of Scott of the Antarctic. Sometimes Hitchcock editor, Charles Frend directs the now fabled story of Robert Falcon Scott’s ill-fated South […]
The Assassin (2016) The martial arts film as a beautiful arts saga (Review)
The Assassin (Hsiao-Hsien Hou) is loosely based on a seventh-century folk tale about a female assassin assigned with re-establishing equilibrium to the corrupt Tang Dynasty court. Shu Qi plays Nie Yinniang, the formidable female protagonist, who has been trained since the age of Ten to be a silent slayer for […]
Pink String and Sealing Wax (1945) The Darkest Soap Opera you’ve never seen (Review)
Ealing Studios are regarded as the bastion of post-war Cinema, the home of the finest comedies Britain has ever produced, but what is often overlooked is their innate Gothicism. With the artifice of its sets and the embers of Victorian London architecture, there is a Gothic grandeur running through the […]
The Sound Barrier (1952) David Lean, The Showman with Substance? (Review)
Nina Forever (2015) A fore-runner of the romantic Horror Sub-Genre (Review)
After gaining a massive amount of praise at The British Independent Film Awards and Frightfest, it’s easy to see why Nina Forever – the directorial debut from The Blaine Brothers – distinctly carves out its identity through considered execution and challenging conventions. Following a tragic motor accident which led to […]
Aferim! (2015) Django Unchained being played over images from Meek’s Cutoff (Review)
Song of the Sea (2015) One of the most beautiful animated films we’ve ever seen (Review)
There is a problem in British Cinema and it’s the relationship with its own mythology and history; go to Korea, Japan, Scandinavia or India and you’ll find numerous movies, cartoons, comic books and other paraphernalia devoted to traditional folklore. British Cinema is more captivated by modern history, politics and its […]