the church (1989)

aka La chiesa
"A stone with seven eyes." A gothic church is built over a mass grave of murdered pagans. Unfortunately a young librarian (Tomas Arana) manages to unleash the demons when he removes a cross that is imprisoning them. Prompting them to possess all in their path, leaving only Father Gus (Hugh Quarshie) left to fight them.
Visually stunning, plot slightly less so.

how to talk to girls at parties (2017)

"I feel alive."
Enn (Alex Sharp), is an introverted school kid, enamoured of punk, in 1970's Croydon. His life changes when he meets the alien Zan (Elle Fanning), who breaks away from her group to visit 'the punk'.
A wonderful story of teenage love, in all its complications. As with all Cameron Mitchell films, you either love it or not!

frankenstein (2004)

"I am not the monster any more, I am your best hope."
Detective's Carson O'Conner (Parker Posey), and Michael Sloane (Adam Goldberg), are trailing a grisly serial-killer, when Carson meets Deucalion (Vincent Perez). He tells her he is 200 years old, and was made by Dr. Victor Helios (Thomas Kretschmann). Could he be the real life Victor Frankenstein that Mary Shelley fictionalised?
Interesting modernisation of the Mary Shelley story.

best before death (2019)

"The art is the dreams drempt whilst in the bed."
Documentary following Bill Drummond on the first two years of a twelve year art tour of the world. Whilst performing his art, whether baking cakes, or making beds, he is questioned whereever he goes.
'What are you trying to say?. 'Right now, I don't know.'
Art as, life affirmation, a midlife crisis, or performance?

oldboy (2013)

"Hello! I'm stuck in a motel room!"
Joe Doucett (Josh Brolin) is a drunkard and a letch, who is kidnapped and placed in solitary confinement for twenty years for no apparant reason. So whinexplicably released he is determined to find out who ordered his incarseration and why.
Remake of the Korean original, and one that will have you asking why bother?

shadow (2018)

aka Ying
"Without the real, there can be no shadow."
In ancient China, three kingdoms are fighting over who controls a city. An uneasy truce comes into force, but things are not what they seem in Pai, where the king (Zheng Kai), believes his wishes are being supported by his Commander Ziyu (Deng Chao), little knowing that Ziyu is in fact a double, whilst the real commander is in hiding, recovering from a sever wound, and plotting the kings downfall.
Beautifully crafted film, awash in black, white and greys, with every frame a delight to look at. Whilst the plot twists and convolutes.

the terrornauts (1967)

"They may have brought us here to do a job for them."
Workers at a radio telescope, (including Charles Hawtrey and Patricia Hayes), recieve a signal from space, and when they answer it, are kidknapped and taken to a satelite, where they undergo a series of intelligence tests, as they attempt to find out why they've been abducted, and how to escape back to earth.
Campy, lo-fi fun.