Volume 3, Number 25 of the UK Monthly Film Review is now available in PDF format. This issue sees some slight changes to the look of the bulletin, which includes UK film releases for the period 3 to 31 January 2025. Films included in this issue are: Babygirl; The Brutalist; The Colors Within; Companion; A…
Month: January 2025
Film Review – DEAD RECKONING (1946)
DEAD RECKONING (1946, USA, 100m, PG) ***½ Crime, Mystery, Thriller dist. Columbia Pictures; pr co. Columbia Pictures; d. John Cromwell; w. Oliver H.P. Garrett, Steve Fisher, Allen Rivkin (based on a story by Gerald Drayson Adams & Sidney Biddell); pr. Sidney Biddell; ph. Leo Tover (B&W | 1.37:1); m. Marlin Skiles; ed. Gene Havlick; ad….
Film Review – HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980)
HUMANOIDS FROM THE DEEP (1980, USA, 80m, 18) **½ Horror, Sci-Fi dist. New World Pictures (USA), United Artists (UK); pr co. New World Pictures; d. Barbara Peeters; w. William Martin (based on a story by Frank Arnold & Martin B. Cohen); pr. Martin B. Cohen; ph. Daniel Lacambre (Metrocolor | 1.85:1); m. James Horner; ed….
Film review – UP POMPEII (1971)
UP POMPEII (1971, UK, 90m, 15) **½ Comedy dist. Anglo-EMI Film Distributors (UK); pr co. Anglo-EMI / Associated London Films; d. Bob Kellett; w. Sid Colin (based on an idea by Talbot Rothwell); pr. Ned Sherrin; ph. Ian Wilson (Eastmancolor | 1.66:1); m. Carl Davis; ed. Al Gell; pd. Seamus Flannery. cast: Frankie Howerd (Lurcio),…
Film Review – THE SWARM (1978)
SWARM, THE (1978, USA, 116m, 12) ** Horror, Thriller dist. Warner Bros. (USA), Columbia-Warner Distributors (UK); pr co. Irwin Allen Productions; d. Irwin Allen; w. Stirling Silliphant (based on the novel by Arthur Herzog III); pr. Irwin Allen; ph. Fred J. Koenekamp (Colour | 2.39:1); m. Jerry Goldsmith; ed. Harold F. Kress; pd. Stan Jolley….
Book Review – NEXT TO LAST STAND (2020) BY Craig Johnson
NEXT TO LAST STAND (2020) *** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2020, 320pp © Craig Johnson, 2020 ISBN: 978-0-525-52255-3 Blurb: One of the most viewed paintings in American history, Custer’s Last Fight, copied and distributed by Anheuser-Busch at a rate of over two million copies a year, was destroyed in a…
Film Review – ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024)
ALIEN: ROMULUS (2024, USA/UK, 119m, 15) ***½ Horror, Sci-Fi dist. Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures; pr co. 20th Century Studios / Scott Free Productions / Brandywine Productions; d. Fede Álvarez; w. Fede Alvarez, Rodo Sayagues (based on characters created by Dan O’Bannon and Ronald Shusett); pr. Walter Hill, Michael Pruss, Ridley Scott, Gergö Balika; ph….