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Fans of classic horror will thrill to see these two great masters, Price and Karloff, go up against each other.

Harryhausen's recollections and anecdotes about the process are a pleasure to see and hear.

Best part of the film is the extremely stylish opening credits: don't arrive late.

There are few surprises except for good writing, engaging stories and brilliant performances by stalwarts of UK drama.

This isn't just blood and guts mayhem; this is about the mental repercussions of bodily violence.

Amenabar would need to regress his audience back to the early Eighties for this to have any sort of suspense.

Atom Egoyan's terrifically paced episodic thriller Remember is hard to forget.

The machine here proves to be little more than a macguffin for a murder mystery set-up and a side helping of sentimental stodge.

Resolution is an excellent amalgamation of horror traits that also stands on its own two feet.

Not since Tarkovsky has the bleak face of Russia been so exposed.

Eventually, as screenwriter Adam Sussman attempts to fit the disparate pieces of a farfetched storyline together, you know it’s nonsense and the moment is lost.

Brightly coloured, esoteric, sometimes cheesy, with an electronic score and a lot more going on upstairs than you might expect, it suits its subject perfectly.

In the colonial tradition there is only one course of action, unreasonable force and the hard hand of authority pressing down upon the throats of the protesters

The film is certainly trying to do something different and in places it succeeds.

Despite overdoing the mumbling a bit Stallone wins us over again with some nice dialogue.

Whatever expectations are carried in are brought to a stop, hard.

Nostalgic, but never sentimental

Camp when it could be creepy, silly where it should be scary, V For Vendetta director James McTeigue's latest offering is fitfully entertaining but tragically turgid and formulaic for the most part.

If Re-Animator doesn't get your blood pumping, you're already dead.

By opening up his story Hood may reach a wider audience and this is a subject which certainly cries out for more attention.

There's talk of everything from self-fulfilling prophecies to Schrodinger's Cat but no amount of cod philosophy and cod psychology can distract from the fact that this is a very familiar formula.

Director Daniel Borgman elicits careful performances from his capable cast, working hard to get past the assumptions commonly made about people in these circumstances.

[Hart] doesn’t turn up the volume, but uses tone and repetition so effectively that the film becomes a microcosm of the real experience.

Wemple's command of a range of distinctive cinematic styles changes the tone between different sections of the narrative nicely.

A cross-pollination of tough Dirty Harry and Frankenstein - often startles the viewer with imagery and ideas.

This has been a huge undertaking on the part of Eastwood Allen and Christopher Griffiths.

Possibly the best musical ever written.

This performance element - full of smoke and sweat as well as all the notes - gives the film life and rhythm that takes it beyond the realm of simple Wikipedia history.

Works both on a technical level and as sheer entertainment.

It's stand-up comedy and it's funny - do you need to know more?

Cushing, increasingly cadaverous with age, presents us with a character who may well be beginning to wonder about his own mortality.

A disturbingly accurate portrayal of the New York intelligentsia.

It's worth noting that this is Altricher's graduation film - he's certainly got his career off to an impressive start.

Everything feels contrived, overblown and - perhaps the worst sin you can lay at the door of a psychological thriller - utterly predictable.

It is a feather in ITV's cap that it was prepared to invest in such a fascinating and thought-provoking script, while managing to keep cliche under wraps.

It’s hard to argue that this is anything but a love-letter.

No defense against a life less lived

Nellis gives the story a welcome feminist slant, showing Bohdanka is a heroine to be reckoned with and presenting Gabriela as complex and lonely rather than just a twisted crone.

Made on just over a million dollars, this remains a hugely impressive first feature.

Has a rare, haunting quality.

Spacey gives a remarkable performance.

That's not beer in the Marky Mark fridge, it's testosterone. And he's going to share it with you.

Funny, sensitive, engaging, and full of real characters whom you can really care about.

The movie also has much to say about this none-too-subtle take on voyeurism, and the nature of unexpurgated creativity uninhibited by copyright.

As an example of comic ideas going to waste, Aussie actor John Polson's directorial debut is a good one.

If you only see one short film this year - make it this one.

If this sounds like a corn fed carbon copy of a Debbie Reynolds standard, it's not

This is so far off the map, it should be funny, but Ledger keeps a straight face and for a moment you might be forgiven for thinking he believes in what he does.

The film dribbles from one disappointment to another, whimpering gently.

The only real mystery, however, is what is this great ensemble cast doing in such a poorly executed movie?