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A TRIP TO THE MOON: Watch Georges Méliès Classic 1902 Sci-Fi Film

Cineastes will no doubt know of Georges Méliès silent classic, A Trip To The Moon (Le Voyage dans la Lune) but how many have seen it? The 1902 film clocks in at just fifteen minutes, but it packs a visual punch – one that has left the world of [...]

August 28, 2021

Notebook Reviews: MYSTERIOUS ISLAND

Cy Endfield – 1961 Mysterious Island is a wonderful old-fashioned American Cvil War era adventure romp. This 1961 film’s stop motion effects are glorious – coming from the brilliant effects master, Ray Harryhausen. All the [...]

April 4, 2021

Blu-Ray & DVD Review Round-Up: BABY DRIVER, CAGE DIVE, BELLE DU JOUR, CHANNEL ZERO & More

This time around we take a Journey To The Centre Of The Earth; discover a Resurrection Of Evil; Cage Dive gives a new meaning to going ‘down under’; Belle Du Jour is the order of the day; A Kind Of Murder is suspect in more ways than [...]

October 28, 2017

Book Review: Kevin Costner’s Adventure THE EXPLORERS GUILD: VOLUME ONE: A PASSAGE TO SHAMBHALA

Kevin Costner is already a man of many talents. He’s had a hugely successful career as an actor, an Oscar-winning director/producer and an accomplished recording artist. Now he can add novelist to the long list, as his first novel The Explorers [...]

November 15, 2015

DVD Review: Georges Méliès Silent Classic A TRIP TO THE MOON

Cineastes will no doubt know of Georges Méliès silent classic, A Trip To The Moon, but how many have seen it? The 1902 film clocks in at just fifteen minutes, but it packs a visual punch – one that has left the world of cinema reeling for over a [...]

November 11, 2012