“One of my all time favourite movies and one of the greatest sci-fi films ever” Mark Kermode Academy Award nominee Bruce Dern stars in Silent Running, a sci-fi classic that journeys beyond the imagination. Synopsis: Botanist Freeman Lowell (Dern) has spent eight years aboard the space freighter Valley…
Browsing: Fabulous Films
Fabulous Films Ltd / Fremantle Media Enterprises will release THE GRUDGE 2 on DVD and Blu-ray on 2nd November 2020. Acclaimed producers Sam Raimi, (Spiderman, Evil Dead) Rob Tapert (Xena: Warrior Princess) and Taka Ichise have re-teamed with director Takashi Shimizu and screenwriter Stephen Susco to present this heart-stopping…
MARY REILLY *** USA / UK 1996 Dir: Stephen Frears. 108 mins Adapted by Christopher Hampton from Valerie Martin’s novel, this tail-end entry in Hollywood’s early 90’s Gothic horror cycle (spun off from Coppola’s BRAM STOKER’S DRACULA) was a costly failure at the time and misleadingly sold as a full-blown…
D.A.R.Y.L. *** UK / USA 1985 Dir: Simon Wincer. 99 mins Despite a cloyingly slushy Marvin Hamlisch and a godawful theme song by Teddy Pendergrass that farts in the general direction of the ending, this is an appealing Amblin-era family sci-fi thriller. After an impressive opening mountaintop helicopter-car chase, an…
THE WOLFMAN *** USA 2010 Dir: Joe Johnston. 102 mins A much delayed (original director Mark Romanek walked due to “creative differences”) large scale Gothic horror – written by SLEEPY HOLLOW’s Andrew Kevin Walker – this is also a rare straight contemporary Hollywood werewolf film, minus the satirical underpinnings of…