Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Mar 11, 2001Angels Aid Baseball Team
An amiable venture into the light fantasy films that were popular during this era., Here angels come down and intervene to aid a baseball team on a losing streak
Janet Leigh
Psycho (1960)
Feb 6, 2001Psycho-Thriller
One of the defining classics of the genre, enormously influential, muchly imitated and parodied and possibly the most over-analysed film ever. Alfred Hitchcock expertly creates a creepy psycho-thriller in which he delights in lulling us and undermining expectation
The Manchurian Candidate (1962)
Jul 9, 2000Brainwashed Assassin/Political Satire
John Frankenheimer film. concerning a Communist plot for creating a brainwashed assassin, Frankenheimer shoots with stark and blackly funny effect and this has duly become a cult classic
The Spy in the Green Hat (1967)
Jun 2, 2020The Man from U.N.C.L.E. Film/Spy Film
The fifth of the theatrically released films based on tv's The Man from U.N.C.L.E.. This is one of the more overtly comic films with an entertainingly madcap plot that has Napoleon Solo forced into a shotgun wedding and Jack Palance as a mad winemaker attempting to divert the Gulf Stream
Hello Down There (1969)
Aug 30, 2023Underwater Habitat Comedy
Director Jack Arnold was one of the great voices of 1950s SF cinema. Here he turns to making a none-too-funny comedy set in an underwater habitat. Featuring a teenage Richard Dreyfuss
Night of the Lepus (1972)
Apr 3, 2002Giant Rabbits Amok
A film with a premise - giant killer rabbits - that is sunken entirely the failure to make a series of photographically enlarged rabbits look threatening
The Fog (1980)
Aug 25, 2002Vengeful Ghosts
John Carpenter’s immediate successor to Halloween is a suspenseful and scary ghost story about undead sailors descending on a small town in a fog bank, even if the narrative logic holding everything together is thin
Halloween H20: Twenty Years Later (1998)
Aug 8, 2001Slasher Film
The seventh Halloween film, made for the original’s twentieth anniversary. This erases continuity to the other sequels and has Jamie Lee Curtis alive and pursued by Michael Myers again. Better than most of the other sequels.