The Film I've Just Seen

Horror movies were a staple part of the output for many Hollywood studios in the 1930s and 40s. Hundreds were churned out during this perio...

THE MONUMENTS MEN is a disjointed, dull, superficial and monumentally unengaging piece of cinema. Director, producer, co-screenwriter and s...

Seems Jesus Christ isn't the only one to have risen from the dead this month. Nicholas Cage's career is also experiencing an equall...

I came for the story and stayed for the star. There's the makings of a tight little murder thriller in 1949's IMPACT but unfortunat...

Leon Trotsky was lucky. He got an icepick to the head and was gone a few hours later. Contrast that with Joseph Losey 's 1972 dramat...

Oh dear. Oh dear, oh dear! What was I thinking? How could I have deluded myself into believing this film might be worth watching? How co...

LAST VEGAS is as shiny, glitzy, shallow and fake as its namesake city. Both dangle tantalizing promises of fun and excitement that neither ...

PHILOMENA is the true story of a young Irish woman forced to give up her baby by nuns who goes searching for him 50 years later and makes th...

This 1934 feature from MGM is really bizarre. It's part Busby Berkeley -style musical, part Marx Brothers-wannabe comedy and 100% a s...

PICK A STAR was independent producer Hal Roach's brave but ill-advised 1937 effort to take on the big studios at their own game. MGM, W...