Author: Kevin Gilmartin

Doctor Jekyll

While stories of duality and the “beast within” have always been a part of human history, since its writing Robert Louis Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and
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Supernova

A tale of two star-crossed lovers, but which star? One doomed to go supernova? Or more immediately, “What’s your favourite planet?” That’s the question Tess poses to Harry,
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The Go-Between

Sophisticated and beguiling and even more relevant than ever, appearing on Blu-ray this month in a shiny new 4K restoration as part of Studio Canal’s Vintage Classics range
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The Criminal

Currently listed under its alternate title The Concrete Jungle on IMDB, The Criminal was one of a string of features shot in the UK by American director Joseph
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Badlands

Now on UK Blu-ray courtesy of Criterion is one of the most significant American films of the early 1970s and perhaps, even, of all time. Terrence Malick’s impressionistic
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Irma La Douce

Appearing on Blu-ray as part of Eureka’s Masters of Cinema range with a splash of jade green comes Billy Wilder’s 1963 farcical comedy Irma La Douce starring Shirley
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Sink the Bismarck!

Now on Blu-ray is one of the classic British war films of the postwar period, director Lewis Gilbert’s Sink the Bismarck!, a tightly-plotted fictionalised account of the Royal
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