Julian Richards’ movie Darklands was first released in the UK already in 1997 and has since then been shown at many festivals around Europe and won quite a few prizes prizes, including Grand Prize of European Fantasy Film in Silver, Best Screenplay and Best Independent Feature Award. But this year,

By Robert Mann. Given that this is the umpteenth adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic novel, the story having already being adapted in almost every way imaginable, from The Muppets to Disney, from period drama to modern re-imagining, it is understandable that there will probably be a degree of fatigue with regard

During an attempted coup d'etat on the emperor's palace samurai Moritoh (Kazuo Hasegawa) rescues court lady Kesa (Machiko Kyo). During the short time that he watches over her Moritoh falls for the her - whilst battling dissenting samurai. On his return to court the emperor asks what he can give

Claude Sautet's 1972 romantic drama pits obnoxious salesman César (Yves Montand) against reserved artist David (Sami Frey) as they vie for the affections of Rosalie (Romy Schneider). This premise and the somewhat archetypal characters have been seen in countless mainstream 'rom-coms' (to put this in context replace César with Hugh Grant and

In the 21st century right now we have Twilight Saga to drive people crazy. Back in the last century, people had the Halloween Saga to go bonkers for. The first part of the Halloween movies came out in 1978. It tells a story of Michael Meyers, a troubled kid who puts