A to Z

There were plenty of films I could have chosen for N, and indeed one of the problems I’ve faced for this A to Z challenge is choosing particular films. Why should I choose one film over another? Well I know a few vampire fans read this blog so I thought that for N, I’d choose […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]