Wooden Swords and Cut-Price Sorcery
Conan the Barbarian lit the fuse for an explosion of cheaply-made, scummy knock-offs that found their way into fleapits and (mostly) video rental stores for the next half-decade.
Read MorePosted by Dave Thomas | Dec 15, 2020 | Feature Articles, Slider
Posted by Dave Thomas | Jul 3, 2020 | Feature Articles, Film, Slider
Split Second came at a time when it seemed like there would be a British vanguard of sci-fi action movies. There was something about their Britishness that set them apart from similar films, a feeling that they’d been ripped from the pages of the UK’s venerable 2000AD comic.
Read MorePosted by Dave Thomas | Feb 4, 2020 | Feature Articles, Slider
“I don’t know about art”, the saying goes, “but I know what I like.”...
Read MorePosted by Dave Thomas | Nov 12, 2019 | Feature Articles, Slider
The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires. The films of Hammer, that small family-run film studio by the...
Read MorePosted by Dave Thomas | Sep 22, 2019 | Feature Articles, Slider
At time of writing, it’s a few weeks to the start of the 63rd BFI London Film Festival,...
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