Posted in B-movies, Horror, Industry, directors, film, politics on Jul 11th, 2007 No Comments »
Dispatches from this year’s Hay-on-Wye literature festival, courtesy of MovieMail correspondent Graeme Hobbs, confirm that director Robin Hardy is in fine fettle and still promising to deliver a much awaited ‘re-imagining’ of his cult 1973 film, The Wicker Man. Hardy has published a novel called Cowboys for Christ, which presents a new take on the […]
Posted in B-movies, Industry, directors on Jun 18th, 2007 1 Comment »
My recent MovieMail blog, Don’t Bisect Grindhouse, lamented the decision to split the not-yet-released Robert Rodriguez–Quentin Tarantino double-bill extravaganza in Europe and release Tarantino’s segment on its own. It argued, before I had seen the film, that cutting Grindhouse clean in half was against the spirit of the enterprise.
I’ve now had the opportunity to […]
Posted in B-movies, Horror, Industry, Scifi on May 25th, 2007 5 Comments »
I reacted with some caution over the news that the Dutch consortium Cyrte Investments has bought Hammer Films and intends to revive some of the studios old favourites for modern audiences.
Haven’t we been here before?
As early as 1980, four years after its last theatrical horror film (the stillborn To the Devil, A Daughter) Hammer head […]
Posted in B-movies, Horror, Industry, film on May 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
It looks like splitting Tarantino movies in two has gone to Harvey Weinstein’s head – it seems he’s about to do that to the long-awaited Grindhouse before it sees a UK cinema release (if it gets a UK cinema release at all). But the reasons are different from the decision to release Kill Bill as […]
Posted in B-movies, Horror, directors, film on Feb 19th, 2007 No Comments »
This month sees the DVD release of three films directed by the late, unheralded Sidney Hayers: Assault, Revenge (both 1971) and the remarkable Night of the Eagle (1962).
Hayers was a prolific journeyman working at the lower budget end of British film-making, delivering programmers and second features at a rate of knots, moving from horror to […]