Recalling the 1972 Hammer Horror Vampire Circus, the equally literal Vampire Carnival follows a travelling attraction that serves as a front for the undead. An ideal gig for working nights and ...

The winning streak of the horror genre continues apace with the latest instalment from the Aardman stable. With Halloween hovering at the end of next month, a brand-new adventure awaits children of ...

The abuse of human rights is one of the great tragedies of history and because it remains so prevalent there have been many documentaries in recent times concerned with it. However, until now I have ...

I feel a warm attachment to this film which is not something that I had anticipated. It is the case that The Portuguese House has won ten awards but most of them were received in Spain which counts as ...

Just over two weeks ago we lost the independent British film producer Jeremy Thomas, aged 77, whose credits included the Oscar-winning The Last Emperor, Nagisa Oshima’s Merry Christmas Mr Lawrence and ...

With its UK release following close on from that of North Sea, Nature Untamed, it is only natural to compare these two works yet in some key respects they are very different. Both are documentaries ...

John Boorman’s battle to direct Exorcist II: The Heretic is revealed in telling detail in David Kittredge’s engaging, well-made documentary. This documentary is all about a film which was made in 1977 ...

It may be slightly less than perfect but Queen at Sea made in Britain by the American director Lance Hammer is bound to be one of the most memorable films of the year and the three central ...

The real star of this film, a piece set in the suburbs of Paris in the 1980s, is the child actor Simon Boublil in the key role of 12-year-old Vincent Dayan. Although young Boublil, now fourteen, had ...

Nature studies are one of the most popular genres within the documentary sphere and that applies both as regards cinema films and programmes made for television. The veneration in which Sir David ...

Jane Austen is the brand that just keeps on giving. And as with many established products, there have been numerous attempts to tweak it, modernise it and sex it up. But the fact remains that Austen ...

The title of this extraordinary film might suggest that it is an adult movie in the sense that it is a highly sexual work that is essentially pornographic. However, the phrase ‘adult movie’ can also ...