Persecution (1974)
Jul 29, 2002Psycho-Thriller
A British psycho-thriller in the Baby Jane mold with Lana Turner as a deranged mother determined to wreck son Ralph Bates's marriage
Trevor Howard
Meteor (1979)
Jan 2, 2013Meteor Collision/Disaster Movie
An effort from the heyday of the 1970s disaster movie that was a big flop when it came out. Widely ridiculed for its bad special effects, it is a film I am partially prepared to defend, it setting aside the usual soap opera dramatics of these films to make an interesting parable about Cold War tensions. It also prefigures Armageddon with its plot of trying to divert a meteor on a collision course with Earth
Sir Henry at Rawlinson End (1980)
Jun 1, 2015Surrealism
Surreal and plotless British film based on a radio show about the happenings around a country mansion
Sword of the Valiant: The Legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (1984)
Nov 1, 2002Sword and Sorcery
Cannon Films make an adaptation of the Mediaeval legend of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight. Routine 1980s fantasy cinema with Sean Connery looking embarrassed as the Green Knight