Alan Furnace is a young man with the perfectly proper, quiet life of a London school teacher. Read More »
Tag Archives: UK
The Happy Family AKA Mr. Lord Says No (1952) Muriel Box, Stanley Holloway, Kathleen Harrison, Naunton Wayne
When the Government decide to build a Festival of Britain exhibition site, everything goes to plan Read More »
Real Life (1984) Francis Megahy, Rupert Everett, Cristina Raines, Catherine Rabett
A comedy about a dreamer whose Walter Mitty-like fantasies turn his world of make-believe into a world of trouble. Read More »
Eyes of Crystal AKA Occhi di cristallo (2004) Eros Puglielli, Luigi Lo Cascio, Lucía Jiménez, José Ángel Egido
When a young couple and a peeper are killed in the field with sadism, Inspector Amaldi Read More »
Road (1987) Alan Clarke, Neil Dudgeon, Jane Horrocks, Andrew Wilde
Your tour guide for the night is one drunken man called Scullery. Read More »
Without a Clue (1988) Thom Eberhardt, Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones
This is a Sherlock Holmes story with a difference. Here, Dr. Watson is the ace detective Read More »
Don’t Ever Leave Me (1949) Arthur Crabtree, Jimmy Hanley, Petula Clark, Linden Travers
In a pleasant variation on “The Ransom of Red Chief,” elderly crook Harry Denton Read More »
The Great Defender (1934) Thomas Bentley, Matheson Lang, Margaret Bannerman, Arthur Margetson
Sir Douglas Rolls had earned the reputation of being England’s greatest barrister. Read More »
Sleep Furiously (2008) Gideon Koppel
Set in a small farming community in mid Wales, a place where Koppel’s parents – both refugees – found a home. Read More »
Mekong Hotel (2012) Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Shifting between fact and fiction in a hotel situated along the Mekong River, a film-maker rehearses a movie expressing the bonds between a vampiric mother and daughter. Read More »