Category: Movie Reviews

Thatcher’s Britain in the 80s was a bleak place to live. Unemployment was at an all time high, prices of pretty much everything went through the roof and poverty was rife. It was grim...

Every now and then i hear about a movie from a friend. It’s usually a film i’ve not heard of, but one that they have watched many times, one they have an insane amount...

The year 1973 was a great year for classic movies, that have stood the test of time. Movies like The Exorcist, Live And Let Die, Magnum Force, Enter The Dragon and The Sting, ruled...

Before i write another word, i’d just like to say, i can’t believe it’s taken me over 30 years to finally catch up with this incredibly entertaining, buddy/cop action movie. I genuinely felt, as...

I think it’s fair to say that by the early to mid 70s, Hammer Studios output was slowly running out of steam. The idea’s were beginning to dry up, and cinema going audiences were...

This delightful movie, which i have loved since the first time i watched it many years ago, opens with college student Richard Collier, played by the brilliant, and vastly underrated Christopher Reeve, gathering rave...

I think it’s fair to say that nobody does gangster movies quite like the British, and for me there are only two, possibly three, true British Gangster classics. One, is obviously Get Carter (1971)....

Whenever i think back to the 1980s, and the classic movies that defined that era, it’s difficult not to think about films such as Back to The Future, The Indiana Jones Trilogy, Gremlins and...

Cast your mind back to the year 1980. Moviewise it was a great year. Among others we had classics like “The Blues Brothers”, “Airplane”, “The Elephant Man”, “Raging Bull” and “The Shining”. We also...

Whenever i’m asked to list some of my favourite family movies, i’m always thrown back to the 1970s. Amongst the movies i have the fondest memories of you’ll find “The Railway Children” (1971), “Willy...