★★★★★ Long considered cinema’s oldest surviving feature-length animation, Lotte Reiniger’s The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) is finally released this week on a widely available format – something that, until recently, had been an impossible feat. Procurable, as is now customary with BFI home entertainment, in a Dual Format edition Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ Opinions on what makes a good horror film usually fall into two distinct camps. On the one hand you have those which unsettle and shock audiences, but sends them home smiling. Then you have the likes of Deranged (1974), the notorious cult outing by directors Jeff Gillen and Alan Continue Reading
★★★☆☆ The BFI’s Experiment Under London is a good example of what the institute does best – preserving intrinsic parts of our country’s cultural and social history. The works included here, by their very nature, are technical. As a result they will likely have more appeal to those interested in the Continue Reading
★★☆☆☆ The first offering in a busy year for Steve Coogan – and newly released this week on DVD and Blu-ray – The Look of Love (2013) is the latest collaboration between the comedian and genre-hopping British filmmaker Michael Winterbottom. This fruitful creative partnership has, in the past, offered up Continue Reading
