‘The Holly Kane Experiment’ reviewed
❉ “The only pleasure here is seeing that Nicky Henson is still getting work”, writes Iain MacLeod.
Film
‘Inoperable’ reviewed
❉ A horror film involving time loops starring indie horror regular Danielle Harris.
‘Threads’ Special Edition DVD reviewed
❉ Don Klees reviews the special edition DVD release of “the boldest science-fiction film of all time”.
Twilight Time Movies – ‘Play Dirty’ (1969)
❉ The latest in our occasional series of reviews of Twilight Time Movies classic Blu-ray and DVD titles.
The Beat Goes On: The Art of the Music Biopic
❉ Paul Abbott reflects on the much-derided genre of the music biopic.
‘Threads’: How I Learned to Start Worrying and Hate the Bomb
❉ In 1984, BBC2 broadcast the most terrifying film ever made: ‘Threads’.
When I Waked, I Cried to Dream Again: Derek Jarman’s ‘The Tempest’ (1979)
❉ Rich and strange (with a hip full of loose change) – such stuff that hallicinatory dreams are made on.
What makes a film flop?
❉ Many films exist on a knife-edge … failure is only a screening away.
Coming Soon… ‘The Other Side With Valerie Hope’
❉ Kate Robbins stars in a blackly comic, Blackpool-set thriller about a psychic medium who is kidnapped by a woman desperate to contact someone on the “other side”.
‘Ready Player One’ (12A) reviewed
❉ All nostalgia, no substance? Iain MacLeod levels up.