Local Hero: a modest masterpiece
What is the first thing that springs to mind when I ask you about the connection between a red phone box in the Scottish highlands, a crackpot oil multimillionaire from Houston, and a jaded and cynical negotiator who ends up trapped between the two colliding worlds?
Val Lewton’s 75-Minute Masterpieces
A lot of old movies are boring. That admission may cost me my credibility as a film nerd, but it’s true. But there are classic films that even my limited attention span can wholeheartedly enjoy, and very high on that list are the horror movies of Val Lewton.
The Early Roots of Film
The Parisians screamed. And it seemed a perfectly reasonable response. After all, packed into a musty early cinema, they had just witnessed the Lumière...
50 years since Bicycle Thieves: the Italian neo-realist nightmare still resonates
The most iconic image to come out of Vittorio De Sica’s Bicycle Thieves is that of a disgruntled
man sat on the pavement with a...
Dirty Dancing Review – ‘gives fans exactly what they want’
Maxim Mower enjoys a touring production of Dirty Dancing at the New Theatre, which he says will satisfy lovers of the 1987 movie.
