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The new Mission Impossible is rollicking good fun from start to finish and a reminder of what Bond films used to be like before the Blond Scouser ruined everything. And say what you like about...

Uncharted is the latest all-CGI Hollywood cartoon. One long macguffin from start to finish. The script doesn't have a single original moment — the money shot is lifted from The Living Daylights and...

The latest retread of Death on the Nile is much better than the mixed reviews suggest. All concerned ham it up outrageously (you know you’re on a one-way cruise to high camp when Russell Brand’s is...

I was amused by Moonfall. It’s utter tripe in the way all those Hollywood apocalypse movies are, but the lead’s backstory is a complete rip-off of the 1980 video nasty Contamination, which is...

I’ve always wanted to like Del Toro, but few of his films have clicked for me. This one I enjoyed much more than I expected to. Neo-noir is very difficult to get right (see also neo-gialli). My local...

Rewatched Glengarry Glen Ross for the umpteenth time over Christmas.

We’ll never see a grown-up film as good as that again. The studios don’t have it in them and no equivalent cast could ever be...

Ashamed to admit I only just got around to watching Once Upon A Time In America, despite being a huge fan of Leone's westerns.

Needless to say, a masterpiece.

Currently streaming on Netflix.

To my slight embarrassment, I'd never seen 12 Angry Men (1957) prior to this weekend, despite being a huge Sidney Lumet fan. Although it's clear where it's headed from the beginning, the acting is...

You do need to cross it off your list, sadly. My view is the agony is somewhat redeemed by the masterstroke of casting Raf Vallone as the Pope. And Coppolla's daughter, though wooden as a fence,...

Re-watched the three Godfathers again over the weekend. The third one still disappoints, but the first two remain peerless after all these years.

Why can't Hollywood make films for grownups any...

Apart from Chi Sei? aka Beyond The Door — the film The Exorcist could have been.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-bDdncqvtfQ

I can declare the Alan Partridge movie the best sitcom spinoff since Porridge. Hilarious!

Sorcerer is brilliant. Friedkin has been trying to reclaim the rights to get it re-released uncut.

Not as big an influence as Bava's Terrore nello spazio.

If only!

I watched The Man With The Golden Gun last week, and couldn't help but wax nostalgic for the days when Bond movies were fun.

Brilliant film. I saw it on the big screen last year. Majestic.

I have very happy memories of visiting the locations in Almeria about ten years ago.

I finally got round to Django Unchained which I thought was rollicking good entertainment from start to finish. But Tarantino really needs to heed Hitchcock's advice that the length of a film should...

The good ones start with the next one.

Be sure to check out his OSS117 spy spoofs. Far more entertaining than the dreary recent Bond movies with the blond scouser.

Yes, just another ball-less teen-friendly horror flick, sadly.

Wait till Eli Roth gets The Green Inferno in the cinemas.

What's amazing about M is how modern it feels. It's nothing like any other film of that era (early thirties).

Three hours is a piss-take though. As Hitchcock observed, the length of a film should be determined by the endurance of the human bladder.

No! The remake is a much-misunderstood comedy classic!

Check this out:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_mW8mBzmHo

Caught We Need To Talk About Kevin on Sky Movies last week —*terrific movie.

Also saw a great Dick Clement/Ian La Frenais-scripted crime movie from the early seventies starring Richard Burton and...