Well I’m continuing the black and white classic theme from yesterday, which was L for The Lodger, and going onto possibly my favourite horror movie, The Mummy. No, I don’t mean the 1999 action adventure starring Brendan Fraser, I mean the original 1932 version, starring Boris Karloff as the Mummy. Set in the 1920s, a […]
Cinema
A to Z – The Lodger
Wow, we’re onto ‘L’ already! I couldn’t not choose this 1926 silent classic by Alfred Hitchcock, starring Ivor Novello. The film is based on a 1913 novel by the same name by Marie Adelaide Belloc Lowndes, and concerns a hunt for a Jack the Ripper style serial killer in the London fog. This killer, known […]
A to Z – The King’s Speech
At first glance, The King’s Speech might not look like my ‘kind of film’. Having said that, I will give most genres a try at least once (within reason, I still loathe musicals) and the presence of Colin Firth, Helena Bonham-Carter, Guy Pearce and Geoffrey Rush swayed me into going to see this. Sufficeth to […]
A to Z – Jurassic Park
I was really tempted for J to put down Jumanji, but the more I thought about it, the more I just had to put down Jurassic Park. After all, who doesn’t love dinosaurs? I’ve loved them since I was little, and went through the phase of wanting to be a palaeontologist. Now I’m going through a […]
A to Z – It’s A Wonderful Life
I think most people might have expected me to choose something like Inception or I, Robot for this letter, but I couldn’t really not choose It’s A Wonderful Life. It’s a film that I actually hated for a long time, but after watching it again during my first film degree, I actually found a depth in […]
A to Z – The Haunting
My movie-themed A-Z continues apace with Robert Wise’s 1963 ghostly classic, The Haunting. Based on the 1959 novel by Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House, the film tells the story of a group of paranormal investigators who find more than they bargained for when they go hunting for ghosts. Dr Markway (Richard Johnson) wants […]
