John Mills

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)

The Rocking Horse Winner (1949)
Rating: ★★★
May 26, 2026Boys’ Rocking Horse Predicts Racetrack Winners
Classic adaptation of a D.H. Lawrence story where a boy’s rocking horse has the ability to predict winners at the racetrack. Shot in stark black-and-white and set amid the grim economic realities of post-War Britain
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Dr. Strange (1978)

Dr. Strange (1978)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 28, 2012Marvel Comics Magician Superhero
Forgotten, unsold tv pilot based on the Marvel Comics sorceror superhero. Unlike other Marvel tv properties of this era, this has an imaginativeness in its reach for esoteric spaces that favourably compares to the comic-book original
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Quatermass (1979)

Quatermass (1979)
Rating: ★★★
Feb 26, 2001Alien Megalithic Artefacts Reactivated
The fourth and final of Nigel Kneale's Quatermass stores, which shows the professor as an old man in decaying future Britain trying to deal with an alien force manifest through ancient megaliths. A surprisingly bleak and cynical end to the saga but still with the greatness of Kneale's writing
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