Island of Terror

001 I don’t generally like anything that starts with a dictionary definition, but I was curious to see how ‘ghost’ was described. The O...

001 I used to go out with a Goth. She drank Pernod, and only wore purple and black. Her hair was extraordinary, crimped and crenelated a...

001 The Kitchen Sink was a watershed for British cinema, as well as a crucible in which a number of great careers were forged. Would a...

001 Director Jacques Tourneur is something of a hero of mine, having directed a number of film noir and horror films which rank amongs...

  Some dates for your diary . Well, actually, they’re dates for my diary, but you can come along too. I’d like that. My thanks to Matthew...

I know I’ve only just got back, but I have decided to put Island Of Terror on hiatus for a while. I seem to have less to say than I used ...

Disco Inferno courtesy of 'The Bitch' .

For all its artistic faults, ‘The Stud’ was extremely successful in financial terms and, naturally, a sequel was created, this time conce...

 

‘The Stud’ may have seemed the perfect suburban adult entertainment in 1978, but today the signifiers of sophistication displayed in t...

To say that ‘ Music Machine’ is my favourite British disco film sounds like faint praise but, in actual fact, it’s a f...

Perennial heavy Pat Roach gets heavy in 'Gangsters' , and I'm not just talking about his jewellery.

As a final 'Gangsters' note, I just wanted to revisit the bit about the ‘abysmal’ acting. I can’t think of another show that has su...

  Series two of 'Gangsters' followed three years later and goes off the rails almost immediately by intro...