I SWEAR (2025, UK, 120m, 15) **** Drama dist. StudioCanal (UK); pr co. Tempo Productions / One Story High d. Kirk Jones; w. Kirk Jones; pr. Georgia Bayliff, Kirk Jones, Piers Tempest; ph. James Blann (Colour | 1.85:1); m. Stephen Rennicks; ed. Sam Sneade; pd. Sabrina Linder; ad. David Konix. cast: Robert Aramayo (John Davidson),…
Film Review – DEAD OF WINTER (2025)
DEAD OF WINTER (2025, Germany/Canada/USA, 97m, 15) ***½ Action, Thriller dist. Vertical Entertainment (USA), Vertigo Releasing (UK); pr co. Augenschein Filmproduktion / Crafthaus / Film- und Medienstiftung NRW / Leonine Studios / MMC Studios / Stampede Studios / Wild Bunch Germany / Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) d. Brian Kirk; w. Nicholas Jacobson-Larson, Dalton Leeb; pr….
Film Review – THE UNDERGROUND MAN (1974)
THE UNDERGROUND MAN (TV) (1974, USA, 74m, PG) *** Crime, Mystery dist. National Broadcasting Company (NBC) (USA); pr. co. Aries Films / Paramount Television. d. Paul Wendkos; w. Douglas Heyes (based on the novel by Ross Macdonald); pr. Philip L. Parslow; ph. Earl Rath (Colour | 1.33:1); m. Richard Hazard; ed. Richard E. Rabjohn, Norman…
Book Review – THE UNDERGROUND MAN (1971) by Ross Macdonald
THE UNDERGROUND MAN (1971) **** by Ross Macdonald This hardback edition published by Book Club Associates, 1972, 255pp © Ross Macdonald, 1971 ISBN: 978-0-002-31848-8 Blurb: A forest fire has mysteriously broken out in the hills above southern California. Meanwhile, Lew Archer has been asked by a desperate mother to find her six-year-old son. Instead, he discovers…
Genesis album A Trick of the Tail celebrates its 50th Anniversary
On 13th February 1976, A Trick of the Tail, the first album Genesis recorded following the departure of lead singer Peter Gabriel, was released. Drummer Phil Collins stepped up to add lead vocals to his contribution, and the band produced a superb album that confounded the music journalists, who had written them off, and delighted…
UK Monthly Film Review January 2026 (Vol 4 No. 37) issue now available
The new look Volume 4, Number 37 of the UK Monthly Film Review is now available free of charge in PDF format. This issue features UK film releases from 27th December 2025 to 30th January 2026. Films included in this issue are: Dorothea; Fine Young Men; Giant; H Is for Hawk; Hamnet; Heavyweight; The History…
Book Review – THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE (2023) by Craig Johnson
THE LONGMIRE DEFENSE (2023) **** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2024, 351pp © Craig Johnson, 2023 ISBN: 978-0-593-29733-9 Blurb: Sheriff Walt Longmire and Dog are called on a routine search and rescue to Wyoming’s Bighorn Mountains, where Walt finds himself on a rock outcropping remembering when his father told him about the…
TV Review – RED EYE: CRIMSON ICARUS (2026)
RED EYE – CRIMSON ICARUS (UK, 2026, 288m, 6 episodes, 15) **½ Thriller dist. Independent Television (ITV); pr co. Bad Wolf / Sony Pictures Television. d. Kieron Hawkes, Camilla Strøm Henriksen; w. Peter A. Dowling; pr. Kristian Dench, Letitia Knight; exec pr. Peter A Dowling, Julie Gardner, Lachlan Mackinnon; ph. Oli Russell; m. Ian Arber;…
Book Review: HELL AND BACK (2022) by Craig Johnson
HELL AND BACK (2022) *** by Craig Johnson This paperback edition published by Penguin, 2023, 336pp © Craig Johnson, 2022 ISBN: 978-0-593-29730-8 Blurb: What if you woke up lying in the middle of the street in the infamous town of Fort Pratt, Montana, where thirty young Native boys perished in a tragic 1896 boarding-school fire?…
UK Monthly Film Review December 2025 (Vol 3 No. 36) issue now available
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…