Search: Starring Roddy McDowall

Fright Night (1985)

Review preview for Fright Night

Some films are made with so much love, and are so palpably full of people enjoying themselves, that the mood is infectious.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5

A teenager becomes obsessed by the idea that the sophisticated stranger living across the street is actually a vampire.
Murder She Wrote: Season 2 (1985)

Review preview for Murder She Wrote: Season 2

A fundamentally excellent show that very rarely stints in quality, always presenting a deliciously difficult puzzle in a pleasant, but exciting manner.

Richard Mellor · 3 out of 5

The novelist-turned-sleuth returns for a second series.
Night Gallery: Season 1 (1970)

Review preview for Night Gallery: Season 1

ight Gallery is a rich mixture in terms of writers, cast and adapted material.

Robert Reid · 3 out of 5

Cult series... we can't believe it's not the Twilight Zone.
Overboard (1987)

Review preview for Overboard

An impossibly-charming rom-com that’ll win you over if you give it a chance.

Stephen Carty · 4 out of 5

A wealthy woman dupes a carpenter, but when she ends up with amnesia he hatches a plot to get his own back.
Planet Of The Apes (1968)

Review preview for Planet Of The Apes

Racial discrimination, the fragile relationship between faith and science, post-Cold War anti-nuclear damnation… the script misses no opportunity to use an ape society for clever analogy.

Stephen Carty · 5 out of 5

Astronauts crash-land on a world ruled by apes.