Shoot the Glass

When I saw Frankenstein about a year ago, I wasn’t very impressed. I found it dull and uninspiring. This, its sequel, was better.
So it turns out that Frankenstein (Colin Clive) and his monster (Boris Karloff) didn’t die after all. Mary Shelley (Elsa Lanchester) reveals what really happened next, in a sort of framing of this [...]

Everyone knows Robin Hood. Even if you haven’t seen this version, chances are that you’ve at least seen the Kevin Costner movie from 1991 or the far superior animated Disney version from 1973.
I quite enjoyed this movie, even though it was the silliest thing I’ve seen in a long time. This is a very lighthearted [...]

War is futile. We’ve heard that many times before from all directions. I’ve never seen it told so exceptionally well though.
This movie, which is based on the classic book by Erich Maria Remarque, tells the story of a group of young German men who enlist as soldiers in World War I at the behest of [...]

Up until only a few years ago, I had not seen any Marx Brothers movies. Then I bought myself a box set (which included Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and Duck Soup), and sat down to watch those in just two afternoons. I loved every minute of them, and don’t believe I ever laughed [...]

Before Peter Jackson made his remake of this beloved classic, I only knew what most people know about King Kong: he’s a great big ape who captures a beautiful woman on a remote island, gets captured himself and subsequently taken back to New York, where he eventually dies falling from the Empire State Building.
So let’s [...]