They don’t make movie stars like Vincent Price anymore – and even when they did, they didn’t make many of them. As well as his prodigious output as an actor, Price was also a well-travelled, learned man with a particular penchant for art and art history and gourmet cookery. A consummate renaissance man, he’s one of those names who transcends the grubby popularity of movie stardom and expands…

Something of the odd one out in this stroll down movie memory lane, “The Ice Pirates” is a favourite cheesy movie that I came across much later in life than the age of 10 or 11 which excuses many of my other Craggus Comfort Movie choices. I don’t think this got a cinema release here in the UK otherwise I would have been all over it at the time but instead it was left for me to stumble across at…

Towards the end of the 1970s, Spielberg began working on a sequel to “Close Encounters Of The Third Kind”. Unlike its predecessor, which spun alien visitation as a hopeful, transcendent and optimistic event, this follow-up would take a much darker tone: a story of a family in a rural farmhouse being terrorised by a group of aliens. “Night Skies”, as it was called, never went in front of the…

It’s something of a curiosity of transatlantic temporal mechanics that this cheap and nasty “Gremlins” rip-off actually reached the UK a month beforeJoe Dante’s Christmas classic but don’t let that fool you into thinking “Ghoulies” is a worthwhile watch. It’s not, despite what your heart may tell you from the porcelain-focussed poster (a marketing gimmick which was so successful, a corresponding…

A couple of years ago, a Twitter #ThisIsYourFilm was making the rounds where you had to choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. Well, it’s come back round again so here, revised and updated, are my favourite movies from every year I’ve been alive. At least it’s still favouritemovies and not ‘best’ movies otherwise this could have taken forever. So, without further ado, for…

So…with it being my birthday, I figured why not do a post around the Twitter hashtag #ThisIsYourFilm where you choose your favourite movie from every year you’ve been alive. Piece of piss, right? Won’t take that long. Oh boy, was I wrong. Even now, as I’m writing this opening preamble, I’m still second-guessing some of my choices, especially for the decade from 1984 to 1994. At least it’s…

Nearly every Friday night, Mertmas and I settle down for ‘Movie Night’, one of the highlights of the week. Usually we’ll watch something I loved when I was his age or work our way through a recent franchise to get him up to speed for an upcoming new release. Recently, we managed to do both simultaneously…

“Ghostbusters” is one of those ‘lightning in a bottle’ films where virtually every single…