Volume 1 Number 11 of UK Monthly Film Review is now available in PDF format. The bulletin includes all movies that went into general theatrical release for the first time in the UK during the period 28 October to 24 November 2023 or debuted on a streaming platform having been released theatrically in other territories….
Month: November 2023
TV Review – DOCTOR WHO: THE STAR BEAST (2023)
DOCTOR WHO: THE STAR BEAST (TV) (2023, UK, 57m, PG) **** Sci-Fi, Action, Adventure dist. BBC; pr co. BBC; d. Rachel Talalay; w. Russell T. Davies (based on the comic strip by Dave Gibbons and Pat Mills); exec pr. Russell T. Davies, Julie Gardner, Jane Tranter, Joel Collins, Phil Collinson; pr. Vicki Delow; ph. Matt…
The Restoration of The Swiss Conspiracy
In the break between seasons one and two of his TV series Harry O, David Janssen travelled to Europe to star in Warner Brothers’ action crime thriller The Swiss Conspiracy. The film is an obscure title from 1976, which dropped into obscurity only to resurface in dodgy home video releases having lapsed into the public…
Book Review – THE CHILL (1963) by Ross Macdonald
THE CHILL (1963) **** by Ross Macdonald This paperback edition published by Penguin Modern Classics, 2012, 344pp © Ross Macdonald, 1963; copyright renewed © Margaret Millar, 1991 ISBN: 978-0-141-19661-9 Blurb: Private detective Lew Archer has better things to do than take on an investigation for Alex Kincaid, a young man claiming that his new bride, Dolly, has…