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The Space Children ** (1958, Adam Williams, Peggy Webber, Michel Ray, Jackie Coogan) – Classic Movie Review 4042

‘Slowly…and with horror the parents realized THEIR CHILDREN WERE THE SLAVES OF THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE!’ Director Jack Arnold’s 1958 Paramount movie is a slice of some simple sci-fi silliness with a peace-mongering moral message that […]

Jul, 18

Night of the Big Heat [Island of the Burning Damned] ** (1967, Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Patrick Allen, Sarah Lawson, Jane Merrow, William Lucas, Kenneth Cope, Percy Herbert) – Classic Movie Review 3,993

Terence Fisher’s 1967 British sci-fi film Night of the Big Heat is based on John Lymington’s novel, and stars Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, husband and wife Patrick Allen and Sarah Lawson, and Jane Merrow. Director […]

Jul, 09

Beginning of the End * (1957, Peggie Castle, Peter Graves, Morris Ankrum) – Classic Movie Review 3984

Producer-director Bert I Gordon’s dull, cheap and extremely silly 1957 Republic Studios black and white sci-fi monster movie stars Peggie Castle as enterprising journalist Audrey Aimes, Peter Graves as Dr Ed Wainwright and Morris Ankrum as […]

Jul, 06

Attack of the Crab Monsters ** (1957, Richard Garland, Pamela Duncan, Russell Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 3,913

Roger Corman’s cult favourite 1957 monster movie Attack of the Crab Monsters has a wild title and a big ugly creature. He recalled: ‘This was the most successful of all the early low budget horror […]

Jun, 29

Little Red Monkey ***½ (1955, Richard Conte, Rona Anderson, Russell Napier) – Classic Movie Review 3,890

‘THE IMPOSSIBLE CRIME. THRILLER OF THRILLERS’ Ken Hughes’s 1955 British black and white crime film Little Red Monkey is a complex, very nifty, and extremely enjoyable little Cold War espionage thriller. Richard Conte and Rona […]

Jun, 19

Without Love *** (1945, Spencer Tracy, Katharine Hepburn, Lucille Ball, Keenan Wynn) – Classic Movie Review 3856

Director Harold S Bucquet’s 1945 comedy is a less well-known and lesser pairing of the screen and real-life team of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn, based on a play by Philip Barry, author of the Broadway […]

Jun, 13

Embrace of the Serpent [El abrazo de la serpiente] **** (2015, Nilbio Torres, Jan Bijvoet, Antonio Bolivar, Brionne Davis) – Movie Review

This enthralling, spectacular looking historical adventure from Colombian director and writer Ciro Guerra (born 1981) is a fascinating contradiction. It is at once both chilly and emotional. It is poetical and political. It is both easily accessible […]

Jun, 03

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