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Three Sundays to Live (1956) 3/5 EDIT “The situation seems highly improbable, but screenwriter Brian Clemens creates some credible characters, who are played with conviction by Jane Griffiths, as Moore's plucky girlfriend, and Basil Dignam, as his rule-bending lawyer. ” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review State of Fear (2026) 3/5 EDIT “Director Pedro Morelli adopts a confrontational style, dotting the action with showy flourishes and drone shots that retreat from ground level to above the skyline. But he also keeps tabs on the human aspect,” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review Rabbit Trap (2025) 46% 3/5 EDIT “Yet, for all Croot's creepiness and some perturbing excursions into the woods, Chainey puts more effort into the atmospherics than the structure of a story that never quite gets its hooks in.” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review Moment of Indiscretion (1957) 3/5 EDIT “The film powers along on its visual strengths, as veteran cinematographer James Wilson and camera operator Nicolas Roeg devise some interesting angles and lighting designs to keep things a touch more striking than the period's average crime quickie.” – Radio Times Feb 23, 2026 Full Review A Place in the Sun (1951) 90% 3/5 EDIT “The film's political naivete was reinforced by William Mellor's glossy lighting of Hans Dreier's platitudinous sets, while its dramatic vulgarity was emphasised by Franz Waxman's bombastic score.” – Empire Magazine Jan 13, 2026 Full Review Circumstantial Evidence (1952) 2/5 EDIT “The solution is rather obvious, but screenwriter Allan MacKinnon compellingly frames the narrative using another case, as Holt's judge father (Frederick Leister) oversees a similar incident involving unreliable evidence. ” – Radio Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review The Tale of Silyan (2025) 100% 4/5 EDIT “Filled with memorable images and nuggets of homespun wisdom, this may be utterly delightful, but there's an edge to the insights into migration and environment change.” – Radio Times Dec 24, 2025 Full Review Christine (1983) 72% 3/5 EDIT “The idea that a 1958 Plymouth Fury can turn into a jealous mistress is a cracker and, through his ingenious use of close-ups and seductive angles, director John Carpenter turns Christine into the sassiest thing on four wheels.” – Radio Times Dec 17, 2025 Full Review Champagne Problems (2025) 72% 3/5 EDIT “Mark Steven Johnson tempers sentiment with wit, while coaxing relaxed performances and making the most of some splendid locations.” – Radio Times Dec 16, 2025 Full Review A Christmas Carol (1984) 98% 3/5 EDIT “Director Clive Donner laudably avoids cheap visual effects and makes atmospheric use of his Shrewsbury locations.” – Radio Times Dec 4, 2025 Full Review She's My Darling (1937) 2/5 EDIT “This is an old-fashioned saga that's often flatly staged and starchily played.” – Radio Times Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Talk About Jacqueline (1942) 3/5 EDIT “British wartime audiences had no idea that the film was a remake of Werner Hochbaum's German drama Man spricht über Jacqueline (1937), an adaptation of the novel by Katrin Holland.” – Radio Times Nov 25, 2025 Full Review Strictly for the Birds (2021) 2/5 EDIT “This overlooked likely lad saga was thrown together after director Vernon Sewell was offered soundstage space before the closure of Beaconsfield Studios. ” – Radio Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Secrets of a Windmill Girl (1966) 3/5 EDIT “In addition to providing fascinating footage of the Windmill's last hurrah, Miller also does a decent job in capturing 60s nightlife, with one party sequence being enlivened by Dana Gillespie's folk singing. ” – Radio Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review So Evil, So Young (1961) 3/5 EDIT “Perhaps the Danzigers were able to splash out on Technicolor for this reform school saga because they had made savings by recycling ideas from their earlier American outing, So Young, So Bad (1950). ” – Radio Times Nov 20, 2025 Full Review Good News (2025) 91% 3/5 EDIT “The cinematography and production design are splendidly evocative, while the ensemble playing is first rate.” – Radio Times Nov 11, 2025 Full Review In Waves and War (2024) 3/5 EDIT “A considered treatise on PTSD that makes inspired use of animation by the London-based Studio AKA to offer visceral, shape-shifting impressions of each veteran's deepest, darkest inner feelings.” – Radio Times Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Knife in the Water (1962) 97% 4/5 EDIT “The cast is superb, with the non-professional Zygmunt Malanowicz judging his swaggering, youthful brio to perfection.” – Radio Times Nov 11, 2025 Full Review Rock You Sinners (1957) 2/5 EDIT “The real fascination with this clunkily assembled featurette lies in the 16mm vérité footage of a bustling dance hall and the first rumblings of British rock. ” – Radio Times Nov 5, 2025 Full Review The House of Mirth (2000) 82% 4/5 EDIT “The film echoes Wharton's disgust at the behaviour of the moneyed Fifth Avenue set, while also passing acerbic comment on America's one percent at the turn of the new millennium (and beyond).” – Radio Times Oct 30, 2025 Full Review The Ring (1998) 98% 4/5 EDIT “Artfully mixing footage formats to achieve a visual texture commensurate with both the tone of the story and Kinji Kawai's eerie score, Nakata inexorably builds the suspense right up to the chilling climax.” – Radio Times Oct 29, 2025 Full Review Malpertuis (1972) 4/5 EDIT “All in all, a glorious curio.” – Radio Times Oct 15, 2025 Full Review The Foreigner (2017) 66% 4/5 EDIT “Chan is magnificent as the ageing, surly Quan, clearly feeling every knock he takes, while Pierce Brosnan turns in one of best performances as a former IRA man who is now deputy First Minister of Northern Ireland.” – Radio Times Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Design for Loving (1960) 2/5 EDIT “Amidst the clunky dialogue and contrived situations involving society snobs and continental aristocrats, there are peculiar performances from James Maxwell as Murray's doltish best pal and Michael Balfour.” – Radio Times Oct 15, 2025 Full Review Silent Invasion (1962) 3/5 EDIT “Brian Clemens's script offers thoughtful insights into the relationship between occupiers and the oppressed, while there's something disarming about the film's cheap street sets. ” – Radio Times Oct 15, 2025 Full Review
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