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 [...]

This movie is an absolute fucking travesty, pardon my language. But let’s start with the few things I did like and appreciate (they are few). I got a chance to see this in HD, and as such, it looks gorgeous. The colours used and the stark contrasts really make this a visual feast. Secondly, I [...]

Old science fiction movies can be iffy. They are often overrun by cheesy special effects, and the acting can come across as (by today’s standards, anyway) awfully hammy.
In those regards, I found this to be wholly refreshing. It’s set during the cold war paranoia in America, and tells the story of an alien called Klaatu [...]

As you may remember, I saw Lang’s M last year (read my review) and gave it a full five stars. This movie, which was made a few years prior to M, is almost as impressive.
The plot is simple. It’s set in a futuristic city which is divided between the working class and the city planners. [...]

Frankenstein is famously one of the most filmed stories in cinematic history. Still, I hadn’t seen a single proper version of this story before, just variations (like Young Frankenstein). I knew the basic gist of it, of course, but I was still quite excited to finally see one of the most regarded renditions of this [...]