frankenstein (2025)

"You may be my creator, but from this day forward, I will be your master."
An ice bound ship, with it's crew working desperately to free it, find a man half dead on the pack ice, mauled by a mighty beast. Once aboard the ship and the beast consined to the icy depths the man tells his story. Of his desire to please an unforgiving father, to creating a monster. Or is he the monster?
Told in flashback, initially from the point of view of the scientist Victor Frankenstein (Oscar Isaac), but then more tellingly from the mind of the creature (Jacob Elordi). Del Toro sticks roughly to the original tale and needs the creatures pathos to ground this intreging tale told well using visual flashes of colour in a muted palette to carve out this gothic classic.

caligula's hot nights (1977)

AKA Le calde notti di Caligola
"Professor!"
Emperor Caligula (Carlo Colombo) has a serious problem as his libedo is not up to it and he has to find a way to prove his virility...
A bawdy Italian comedy, with little in the way of laughs or entertainment.

two roses and a golden rod (1969)

AKA Naked Under Satin. Ménage à trois.
"If I was a candle I would burn at both ends."
Mother (Elizabeth Knowles) and daughter (Ami Paisley) fight for the affection of the mother's husband, and whilst the daughter has incestious thoughts the mother is looking for affection elsewhere.
Boardering on the edge of 'so bad it's good' with the continuous inner monologues from the various participants as the tip-toe around the morales of 60's America.

tender loving care (1973)

"Right now I have to go on duty."
Donna Young (Karen Jordan) joins the nursing staff of a hospital and soon gets into the swing of things. But the course of true love never runs smooth, especially when one of the nurses starts raiding the drugs cabinet.
The lives and loves of three nurses that spends no time skipping straight to the nudity.

times square (1980)

"I'm playing shite huh!"
Two girls with mental issues become runaways. One is Nicky (Robin Johnson) a streetwise New York hard case, the other shy middle class Pamela (Trini Alvarado), but with only each other in the big bad city they bond and form a punk band. Enter hip radio DJ (Tim Curry) who sees the chance of a good story.
A patchy but often fascinating affair, that shows a precise moment in time for the city and it is packing a great soundtrack.