Category Archives: Film

BBC’s The House of Eliott

Posted on 26th February 2022 by Donna Bird

The House of Eliott is a British serial drama set primarily in London during the 1920s. The principal characters are the Eliott sisters, Beatrice and Evangeline, and their close friend Jack Maddox, a photographer who later turns film director – … Continue reading →

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Lorenzo DeStefano’s Los Zafiros: Music From the Edge of Time

Posted on 26th February 2022 by David Kidney

There has been a re-awakening of interest in the music of Cuba. Even with its turbulent history, the island, which sits just 90 miles off the tip of Florida, was almost forgotten as the United States sought to ignore it. … Continue reading →

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Ralph Bakshi’s Wizards

Posted on 26th February 2022 by Diverse Voices

Sarah Meador wrote this review. I first saw Wizards at the strange age of 7, when a baby-sitter attempted to pacify me through video. On the afternoon lineup were a couple of Disney movies, a reel of old black and … Continue reading →

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Harold Ramis’s Groundhog Day

Posted on 3rd February 2022 by Diverse Voices

Kimberlee Sweeney Rettberg wrote this review. Bill Murray is good at playing jerks. This time, however, he gets to play a jerk with a future – a jerk who, for whatever reasons, is allowed to relive the same day over … Continue reading →

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Anthony Horowitz’s Foyle’s War

Posted on 3rd February 2022 by Donna Bird

Foyle’s War is an immensely popular British mystery series created and largely written by Anthony Horowitz, who also had a hand in screenwriting for Poirot and Midsomer Murders, two other British mystery series I also enjoy. The British commercial television … Continue reading →

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Acorn Media’s Midsomer Murders, Set 13

Posted on 29th January 2022 by Cat Eldridge

Damn, those were good! Indeed they were the finest set of Midsomer Murders in the span of the entire series. I’ve seen every one of them, courtesy of Acorn, which has released them all on DVD in the USA. I … Continue reading →

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Acorn Media Group’s Midsomer Murders, Set Eleven and Set 12

Posted on 29th January 2022 by Donna Bird

Bless Acorn Media for sending us these wonderful DVD sets as they become available! I remember all too well the exquisite torture of watching some of the earlier Midsomer Murders episodes, well larded with commercial breaks, on the A&E Network. … Continue reading →

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Jeff Evans’ Midsomer Murders: The Making of an English Crime Classic

Posted on 29th January 2022 by Cat Eldridge

As I noted in my review of the first set of Midsomer Murders DVDs, which Acorn Media has released here in the States: Midsomer Murders series is based on the novels by Caroline Graham, with scripts written by some of … Continue reading →

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Acorn Media Group’s Midsomer Murders, Set 1

Posted on 29th January 2022 by Cat Eldridge

‘Every time I go into any Midsomer village, it’s always the same thing’, he huffs. ‘Blackmail, sexual deviancy, suicide and murder.’ – Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby in Midsomer Murders I first saw the Midsomer Murders series on A&E, the American … Continue reading →

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Reynold Humphries’ The Hollywood Horror Film, 1931-1941: Madness in a Social Landscape, and Steffen Hantke, editor’s Caligari’s Heirs: The German Cinema of Fear after 1945

Posted on 18th January 2022 by kestrell

Kestrell Rath wrote this review. There is a growing body of high-quality critical writing about the horror film, both classic and contemporary, and part of this criticism has begun to address the ongoing dichotomy between the often confused and disparaging … Continue reading →

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