Cert PG | 120 mins | 1953
5 Star Oscar winning performance
Holden is Awesome.
Legendary writer/ director Billy Wilder (Some Like it Hot, Sunset Boulevard, Double Indemnity, The Apartment) combines with Edwin Blum (The Bamboo Prison) to write the screenplay of Donald Bevan‘s and Edmund Trzcinski‘s stage play to bring us two hours of dark comedy.
The film is set in a German prisoner of war camp, Stalag…more
Cert 15 | 90 mins | 1969
4 Star Proper Spaghetti Western
From writer/director/actor Robert Hossein (Death of a Killer) comes an amazing homage to the legendary director of the genre, ‘Spaghetti Westerns’ Sergio Leone (For a Fistful of Dollars, For a Few Dollars More, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West). A French/ Italian collaboration which originally was called…more
Cert 15 | 84 mins | 2015
3 stars for this entertaining sun, sea and sharks filled thriller.
Shark Killer is written and directed by Sheldon Wilson (Shallow Ground, Scarecrow) and brings us a glorious backdrop against which to enjoy this fun story, filmed on location in Cape Town, South Africa.
Chase Walker (Derek Theler – Baby Daddy, Project: SERA) is a shark killer by trade. The film opens…more
Cert 12 | 103 mins | 1984
3 Star. You are in the 1980’s the 19-80’s!
From first time director W.D. Ricchter (Big Trouble in Little China (adaptation)) and the writer Earl Mac Rauch (Wired) comes something slightly strange in what its message is. Although it’s billed as a comedy, it’s like you are not in the loop, nothing is explained and the jokes have no punchlines. To…more
Cert 15 | 180 mins | 2015
4 stars for this hilarious ITV comedy.
The Delivery Man is brought to us by the writers (Robert Harley, James Henry, Tom Newton) and director (Victoria Pile) of Green Wing and Smack the Pony.
The star of the show is Matthew (Darren Boyd – The World’s End, Spy), an ex-policeman who has decided to give up a life of crime fighting in…more
Cert PG | 124 mins | 1977
5 Star Look into the Psyche.
In my opinion this is probably Robert Altman‘s (The Long Goodbye, Nashville) finest work, as he wrote, produced and directed this masterpiece of the human mind and how it interacts with the others it meets.
3 Women is sometimes a surreal art film with strange shots only known to the writer/director and other times a masterpiece…more
Cert 15 | 2015
1 star for this uninspiring and unfunny “comedy” horror.
The Walking Deceased is written by and stars Tim Ogletree (Supernatural Activity) and directed by Scott Dow (Taste Buddies – short).
It lampoons a number of other films and series in the zombie genre, which is a great idea and has been known to work very well. However, if you are going to be…more
