Romancing The Stone turned out to be a very pleasant surprise for me. I got sent to review it for my student paper and went in with zero advance knowledge and low expectations. It turned out to be a remarkably entertaining movie, with great chemistry between leads Michael Douglas and Kathleen Turner. This was also…
All The President’s Men
The first time I saw this movie at the cinema I found it really boring, largely because I had no idea what was going on! I was a little young and being British had not really followed the details of the Watergate scandal. I think maybe I was expecting more of an action thriller, and instead…
Zombies / Night Of The Living Dead
The late, great George A Romero is in many ways the father of the modern-day horror movie. Up until his seminal 1968 Night Of The Living Dead, horror had typically taken place in Victorian drawing rooms and the forests of Transylvania, first with Universal monsters in the 30-40s, and latterly with Hammer Films’ output. Night……
The Karate Kid
I never saw this movie in the 80s, and only recently watched it on Netflix. I had a general idea of what it was about, and somewhere I remembered knowing about the phrase ”wax on, wax off”, but this was one of those 80s ‘classics’ that had totally passed me by. What got me into…
Some Came Running
Unusually, I own several pieces of memorabilia for this movie which I have never seen. I bought these posters simply because I am a big Frank Sinatra fan. He holds a special meaning for me as he was my late father’s favourite singer. I was fortunate enough to be able to take my father to…
Casino Royale
It is no secret that 1967 James Bond spoof Casino Royale is an unholy mess. This is a movie which took 5 directors to make and it and includes multiple actors as different incarnations of James Bond (played by David Niven and Peter Sellers amongst others). I have only seen this once (on TV, years ago)….
2001 / 2010
This is a pair of French posters for Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking sci-fi opus 2001: A Space Odyssey and its less renowned sequel 2010: The Year We Make Contact. The special effects in Kubrick’s movie were a marvel of their time, for sure, with everything created physically and in immaculate detail in the days before CGI….
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
This is a selection of stills and the UK press kit from Steven Spielberg’s remarkably dark follow-up to Raiders of the Lost Ark. Temple is actually a prequel to Raiders. It kicks off with a fantastic opening sequence, set to “Anything Goes”, sung in Mandarin, and climaxes with an amazing set-piece rail car chase through…
The Evil of Frankenstein / Frankenstein Created Woman
Here’s a pair of Belgian posters for films from the Hammer Frankenstein sage, both starring the indomitable Peter Cushing. These Belgian posters are quite small (35 x 55cm), so are a good option to display if you do not have a huge amount of wall space. They are also highly collectible, especially for the 60s…
Raging Bull
Martin Scorcese’s biography of boxer Jake La Motta is the movie for which Robert De Niro famously piled on nearly 30 kg and won his second Oscar. It has phenomenal performances, fantastic black and white photography, and the fight scenes are wonderfully choreographed and edited. But it is very slow burn, and whilst it is…