Directed by Rose Glass Venturing into the cinema is almost a dance with death so a horror film seems appropriate and Saint Maud will be one of the few highlights of this dreadful year. Rose
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The Trouble with Harry*
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock The Trouble with Harry is that it isn’t funny. It’s neither black enough of funny enough and no amount of rewriting history will cover up that it stank on release. Maybe
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Radioactive**
Director Marjane Satrapi Despite being based on a graphic novel, Radioactive is a throwback to the worthy Thirties film biopics with Rosamund Pike trying her best in yet another career clunker as Marie Curie. It
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Suspicion ***
Director Alfred Hitchcock When I first watched this film many years ago, I remember being glad that Cary Grant was innocent of Joan Fontaine’s suspicions about him wanting to murder her. Watching it again and
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Midway ****
Director Roland Emmerich It’s as if the 1970s had never happened. Emmerich serves up an unabashed flag waver for the greatest naval battle of World War Two which seems more suited to a double bill
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The Lodger: A Story Of The London Fog (1927)****
Directed by Alfred Hitchcock The first real Hitchcock film, The Lodger uses the idea of a Jack the Ripper type serial killer on the prowl in Twenties London. There’s a trademark opening murder of a
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Tenet **
Directed by Christopher Nolan Sooner or later, Christopher Nolan was bound to produce a dud. It’s just a bit unfortunate that it’s with Tenet, a film pushed to encourage people to return to the Cinema.
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The Pleasure Garden (1925)
Alfred Hitchcock’s first film as solo director (and the first film he was involved in to survive) is The Pleasure Garden, a typical melodrama where two hoofers discover and lose love. A major obstacle in
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