The story of the Titanic
disaster has been told many times in the cinema, but never with the
authority, realism and poignancy of A
Night to Remember... [More...]
And so began the most successful and longest running film series in
history. No one, not even the film’s producers Harry Saltzman and
Albert R... [More...]
The second of the James Bond films is easily the best. Spared the
tight budgetary constraints that impaired the first Bond film, Dr No
(1962), From Russia with Love
exhibits the stylish design and lavish production values... [More...]
Everyone knows the old Greek legend. In return for a good deed,
King Midas of Pessinus was given a fabulous gift, the ability to turn
everything he touched into gold... [More...]
Of all of Alfred Hitchcock’s films, the one which has probably
undergone the greatest reappraisal since its initial release is Marnie. When it was first
released... [More...]
Four films in and the format of the Bond movie is already pretty well
cast in stone. The crowd-pleasing formula established in the
previous three films had made making a Bond movie a painting-by-numbers
exercise... [More...]
Five films in and the Bond franchise already looks as if it might be in
trouble, descending to the level of self-parody whilst its lead actor
does a good impression of a man desperate to be let out of Pentonville
Prison... [More...]
This is the point at which the Bond movies became just a little too
silly for their own good. After a run of six generally impressive
films, the series inexplicably took a turn for camp absurdity... [More...]
Murder on the Orient Express
was the first adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel of which the
author approved and which does justice to the book on which it is
based... [More...]
A Bridge Too Far is an
ambitious and stirring account of one of the greatest military blunders
of WWII, based on a book by Cornelius Ryan, who also wrote The Longest Day... [More...]
