BLACK HOLE REVIEWS

GENRE MOVIE BOOKS FROM LORRIMER PUBLISHING HOW TO GET A TEENAGER'S ATTENTION ONE OF THE EASIEST WAYS TO RECOMMEND MOVIES IS TO USE PHOTOGRAPHS AND POSTERS. ALL IT TAKES TO SELL A MOVIE...

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BFI FILM CLASSICS: QUATERMASS AND THE PIT BY KIM NEWMAN JUST REWATCHED QUATERMASS AND THE PIT (1968) AND READ KIM NEWMAN'S BOOK-LENGTH ESSAY ON THE FILM AND THE QUATERMASS GENRE. HIS R...

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A LAST LOOK AT MY OLD MOVIE MAGAZINE SHELF... WHILE MY COLLECTION OF HORROR AND SCI-FI BOOKS AND MAGS IS ANOTHER MATTER, THIS SHELF OF GENERAL MOVIE MAGAZINES HAS A WIDER APPEAL AND PROVED ...

http://blackholereviews.blogspot.com/2014/12/flashbacks-1983-and-beyond.html

THROUGH A SERIES OF UNREPEATABLE, LUCKY COINCIDENCES, I RECENTLY FOUND MYSELF STANDING IN BELA LUGOSI'S BEDROOM. HE MAY NOT HAVE LIVED HERE FOR LONG, BUT JUST WALKING AROUND ONE OF THE HOUSES...

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I've updated my review of Blind Terror (UK title) / See No Evil (US title), Richard Fleischer's 1971, blind woman vs psychopath thriller starring Mia Farrow. Unexpectedly, Elmer Bernstein's rous...

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I WISH ALL MY FAVOURITE MOVIES HAD A BOOK LIKE THIS GEORGE ROMERO'S 1985 DAY OF THE DEAD NOW HAS A BRAND NEW MAKING-OF BOOK, FULL OF NEVER-BEFORE-SEEN PHOTOS AND RECENT INTERVIEWS WITH THE C...

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Just had an article published on another movie blog. So if you go visit... Rupert Pupkin Speaks - Underrated Action Adventure ... you can read my short list of action adventure movies thr...

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1982 was an incredible year for new movies. But at the time, I was buying fewer of my usual, general film magazines. Here are the only highlights, plus a look at the more specialised publications...

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THE UFO INCIDENT (1975, U.S. TV movie) First recreation of a reported alien abduction - never been on DVD This a compelling, well-produced TV movie that features an early conception of...

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MONSTER MAG! IT'S BACK! BLOODIER THAN EVER! THE GORIEST MOVIE MAGAZINE OF THE 1970S - A COVER GALLERY THAT INCLUDES THE BRAND NEW ISSUES... (UPDATED 02/10/2014 - ISSUE 19 IS A THIRD NEW...

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THE DEATH OF DRACULA (1921, Hungary, Drakula halála) So you think you know the history of horror films? I don't! There I was, thinking Nosferatu (1922) was the first ever Dracula film...

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Out of the Konga suit and into Doctor Blood's Coffin! You may have seen Paul Stockman's most famous roles, but not his face. He played the undead occupant of Doctor Blood's Coffin (1961) and...

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MYSTERY OF THE WAX MUSEUM (1933, USA) UNIQUE TWO-STRIP TECHNICOLOR HORROR IS GROSSLY DISTORTED ON DVD I LOVE WAX MUSEUM BECAUSE THE HUMOUR IS MODERN, THE COLOUR SCHEME ALMOST UNIQUE AN...

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  BATMAN: THE DARK KNIGHT RETURNS  (2013, USA) AN ANIMATED BATMAN FOR ADULTS! THERE'S A NEW PROBLEM IN GOTHAM CITY, AN ARMY OF MUTANT CRIMINALS ON A WORSENING CRIMEWAVE. JUST AS COM...

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   THE LODGER (1927, UK) Alfred Hitchcock's earliest thriller is far from silent in this new restoration  While Alfred Hitchcock's earliest films as a director have recently been rest...

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A SELECTION OF PAGES FROM BRITISH MOVIE MAGAZINES OF 1981.  THE HIGHLIGHT OF 1980'S CHRISTMAS HOLIDAYS WAS EASILY DINO DE LAURENTIIS' FLASH GORDON, WHICH DIDN'T NEED MUCH ADVERTISING WITH Q...

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WENT THE DAY WELL? (1942, UK) Home invasion horror... in wartime England An English village surrounded by countryside. The middle of World War II. A regiment of German troops secretly p...

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THUNDERBIRDS ARE GO, THUNDERBIRD 6 (1966, 1968, UK) BOTH ON ONE LIMITED EDITION BLU-RAY FROM TWILIGHT TIME GERRY ANDERSON'S MANY SERIES HAVE BEEN A LIFELONG OBSESSION OF MINE. BUT O...

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MISSING (1982, USA) WHEN THE LAW MEANS NOTHING ANY MORE, JUST OBEY THE GUYS WITH GUNS... A YOUNG AMERICAN JOURNALIST (JOHN SHEA) GETS CUT OFF FROM HIS WIFE (SISSY SPACEK) DURING A VIO...

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FRANKENSTEIN MUST BE DESTROYED (1969, UK) The apex of the Hammer Studios' Frankenstein series... Baron Frankenstein's latest experiment has been found discovered by the police. He has t...

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DEADFALL (1968, UK) VERY SIXTIES, VERY GLOSSY, VERY REPRESSED... MICHAEL CAINE PLAYS A JEWEL THIEF, DRAWN INTO AN AMBITIOUS HEIST FROM A WELL-PROTECTED ESTATE ON THE SPANISH ISLAND OF ...

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THE FIRST TIME EVER I HEARD JUDGE DREDD... JUDGE DREDD HAS ALWAYS BEEN COY ABOUT SHOWING HIS FACE. IN THE EARLY YEARS, 2000 AD COMIC FANS OF ALL AGES WOULD SEND IN DRAWINGS OF WHAT HIS FAC...

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ISLAND OF TERROR (1966, UK) JUST WHEN YOU THINK AN OLD FILM IS OUT-OF-PRINT AND LIKELY TO BE FORGOTTEN, IT GETS DIGITALLY REMASTERED AND STRUCK ON BLU-RAY! ODEON ENTERTAINMENT ARE RELEA...

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DAY OF THE ANIMALS (1977, USA) WHEN ANIMALS ATTACK... AND KEEP ON ATTACKING! A LARGE GROUP OF HAPPY CAMPERS PREPARE FOR A LONG TREK IN CALIFORNIA'S HIGH SIERRAS. BUT AFTER THEY'RE...

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I'VE UPDATED MY REVIEW OF WHO? TO INCLUDE THIS NEW REGION 2 PAL DVD RELEASE FOR THE UK. IT'S PROBABLY A REPACKAGED VERSION OF THE 2010 US RELEASE, BUT WITHOUT ANY OF THE EXTRAS (NAMELY COMMEN...

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