Cert PG | 114 mins | 1965
4 Star
Cat and Mouse Behind the Iron Curtain.
From the pen of spy thriller master John le Carré (Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy (TV Mini-Series), Smiley’s People (TV Mini-Series), The Constant Gardener) comes a classic spooks film, directed by Martin Ritt (Hud, The Brotherhood, Norma Rae). He takes us into the underbelly of what we never see, but read about in the…more
Cert TBC | 400 mins | 1935-42
5 Star
Bigotry Leads to Skulduggery.
From the master of horror that was Boris Karloff (The mummy, The Bride of Frankenstein, The Mask of Fu Manchu, Black Friday) comes a collection of his films from the 1930’s-40’s while he was contracted to Columbia. A lot has been written about this period in cinematic history and most say it was Universal that were…more
Cert 12 | 107 mins | 1917-18
4 Star
A Cowboy From the Silver Screen.
From the screen legend that was John Ford (The Grapes of Wrath, Two Rode Together, Rio Grande, My Darling Clementine, The Quiet Man, The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance) comes two films from his early career, thanks to the NBC Universal Studio Post for recovering these two silent screen horse operas. Apart from them…more
Cert PG | 81 mins | 1942
4 Star
A Man With Nothing to Lose and a Dame.
Eureka Classics brings us a true film-noir with the stunning Veronica Lake and the hard-nosed Alan Ladd. Adapted from a Graham Greene novel (The Fugitive, Brighton Rock, Our Man in Havana) and directed by Frank Tuttle (Springtime for Henry, The Hour Before the Dawn) , who brings us a propaganda film…more
Cert U | 222 mins | 1923, 1925, 1927
5 Star
More Slips, More Stunts, More Keaton.
Once again we have to thank The Keaton Project 2015 by Cineteca di Bologna and Cohen Film Collection to restore all Buster Keaton films between 1920 – 1928 and also Eureka The Masters of Cinema for putting together this amazing comedy classic package. This volume sees our zero go too hero as a man…more
Cert PG | 110 mins | 1928
4 Star
The Afflicted, The Cursed and Love.
Dicrector Paul Leni (Sleeping Beauty, Waxworks, The Cat and the Canary) takes Victor Hugo‘s (Les Misérables, The Hunchback of Notre-Dame) 1869 novel of the same name and creates a film that is not a horror, but you can’t get closer to one than this macabre love story. The Man Who Laughs (1928 film) has…more
Cert PG | 96 mins | 1943
5 Star
Melodrama at its Best.
#237 in the Masters of Cinema range brings us another Billy Wilder (Witness For The Prosecution, The Apartment, A Foreign Affair, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes) classic wartime thriller, this time a film from his early career, and you can see the makings of a great director from all the varied scenes in this film.…more
