Volume 4, Number 36 of the UK Monthly Film Review is now available in PDF format. This issue features UK film releases from 29th November to 26th December 2025. Films included in this issue are: Anaconda; Animalia; Avatar: Fire and Ash; Bone Lake; Dracula; Dreamers; Eleanor the Great; Ella McCay; Eternity; Fackham Hall; Faith of…
Month: December 2025
Film Review – THE AFRICAN QUEEN (1951)
AFRICAN QUEEN, THE (1951, UK/USA, 106m, PG) **** Adventure, Drama, Romance, War dist. United Artists (USA), Independent Film Distributors (IFD) / Remus Films (UK); pr co. Romulus Films / Horizon Pictures; d. John Huston; w. James Agee, John Huston (based on the novel by C.S. Forester); pr. Sam Spiegel, John Woolf; ph. Jack Cardiff (Technicolor…
TV Review – LAND OF THE GIANTS – THE CRASH (1968)
LAND OF THE GIANTS – THE CRASH (USA, 1968, 50m, PG) ***½ Sci-Fi, Adventure dist. American Broadcasting Company (ABC); pr co. Irwin Allen Productions / Kent Productions / 20th Century Fox Television. d. Irwin Allen; w. Anthony Wilson (based on a story by Irwin Allen); pr. Irwin Allen; ph. Howard Schwartz; m. John Williams; ed….
Film Review – SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1960)
SWORD OF SHERWOOD FOREST (1960, UK, 79m, U) *** Adventure dist. Columbia Pictures; pr co. Hammer Film Productions / Yeoman Films Ltd.; d. Terence Fisher; w. Alan Hackney; pr. Sidney Cole, Richard Greene; ph. Ken Hodges (Eastmancolor | 2.35:1); m. Alun Hoddinott; ed. Lee Doig; ad. John Stoll. cast: Richard Greene (Robin Hood), Peter Cushing…
Book Review – DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING STAR (2021)
DAUGHTER OF THE MORNING STAR (2021) ***½ by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2022, 322pp © Craig Johnson, 2021 ISBN: 978-0-593-29727-8 Blurb: When Lolo Long’s niece Jaya begins receiving death threats, Tribal Police Chief Long calls on Absaroka County Sheriff Walt Longmire as lethal backup. Jaya “Longshot” Long is the phenom of the…