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Ah yes, ‘Mammoth skyscrapers of stone thundering across the Earth!’ Director John Sherwood’s 1957 movie is an atmospheric, effective enough sci-fi film, in which the residents of a California desert town start dying after scientist […]
David Lynch’s career unfairly took a nose-dive with the box-office failure of his spectacular, visually thrilling 1984 epic film of Frank Herbert’s sci-fi novel Dune. Unfairly scorned, Lynch’s Dune is more of an exciting near-triumph […]
So what kind of bender are you? A Waterbender, Firebender, Earthbender or maybe an Airbender? Or are you an Avatar, perhaps? The script of this kids’ story about the adventures of a young boy called […]
The much missed British gay film-maker Derek Jarman contemplates his life and times in the garden of his own bleakly beautiful seaside home in Dungeness, Kent, England, while he dreams of events in the life of […]
Writer-director Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in his witty 1993 ironically wry look at life in three chapters like diary entries with personal stories and reflections. (1) Moretti travels around Rome on his Vespa, admiring […]
Kevin Costner comes a cropper as the Mariner, a gilled ocean-sailor in director Kevin Reynolds’s ambitious but waterlogged 1995 futuristic action-adventure sea-saga. It is set after the polar ice caps have melted, covering the world […]
This now restored 25-minute classic silent comedy short from 1917 is one writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best. Unusually not in his famous Tramp costume and guise, Chaplin plays a drunk (The Inebriate) who goes to dry […]