The Dark Eyes of London
Bela Lugosi plays Orloff, an ex-doctor-cum-insurance salesman who becomes a person of interest in a homicide inquiry after the bodies of several of his clients are found in Thames. This […]
Fatal Attraction
Glenn Close goes hopping mad in the thriller that spawned countless copycats and the expression “bunny boiler,” while the word “myxomapsychosis” sadly never caught on. Fatal Attraction isn’t the first […]
The Godfather Part III
Michael Corleone (Al Pacino) is back in another variety of chairs in this, the Godfather of disappointing movies. Just when Francis Ford Coppola thought he was out (having bought a […]
Vincent
In this one man play, Leonard Nimoy plays Theo Van Gogh giving a talk to an audience in the week after his brother Vincent’s death at the age of 37. […]
High Life
A group of criminals (including Robert Pattinson, Mia Goth and André 3000) are sent into space to extract an alternative energy source from a black hole while a perverted doctor […]
The Godfather Part II
To follow one of the most acclaimed films of all time is a near-impossible challenge, especially when its iconic main character is dead. Here the Godfather goes farther via a […]
Amazing Grace
In 1972, at the height of her fame, Aretha Franklin decided to take it back to church by recording a Gospel album in an actual church, the New Temple Missionary […]
Philip Glass – The Bowie Symphonies
This year Glass finally completes a long-running trilogy, and for once I’m not talking about M. Night Shyamalan. The twist here is that Philip Glass’ third David Bowie symphony (‘Lodger’, […]
Waltzes from Vienna
In early 19th century Vienna, Johann Strauss II (Esmond Knight) plays second fiddle, both metaphorically and literally, in his father’s (Edmund Gwenn) orchestra, where he’s constantly denigrated by his elder […]
Edvard Munch: Love and Angst
Until 21st July the British Museum plays host to the work of the Norwegian expressionist best known for The Scream (1893), which would eventually inspire the greatest film ever based […]
