Login

Classic Cinema

The Naked City (Blu-ray) (1948)

7.6/10
Director: Jules Dassin
Starring: Barry Fitzgerald, Don Taylor, Frank Conroy, Howard Duff, Dorothy Hart

When a beautiful young model is found dead in her apartment, the police initially suspect it was suicide. But after the coroner discovers it was murde... Read more

The Ladykillers (Blu-ray) (1955)

7.7/10
Director: Alexander Mackendrick
Starring: Alec Guinness, Cecil Parker, Peter Sellers

Alec Guinness teams with Peter Sellers in this fabulous tale of a group of dumb crooks who become unhinged by a sweet old lady. An Ealing Studios gem. Read more

The Thief (aka Ladron) (1952)

6.8/10
Director: Russell Rouse
Starring: Ray Milland

A chance accident causes a nuclear physicist selling top secret material to the Russians to fall under FBI scrutiny and go on the run. This film is n... Read more

Bromo and Juliet (1926)

6.2/10
Director: Leo McCarey
Starring: Charley Chase, Oliver Hardy, Corliss Palmer

Star of the Hal Roach studios, Charley Chase is the main player in these two two-reelers, the first of which 'Bromo and Juliet' sees him reluctantly t... Read more

I Thank You (1941)

6/10
Director: Marcel Varnel
Starring: Felix Aylmer, Arthur Askey

The perils, humiliations and humour of trying to run a second-rate theatrical company are further compounded when financial aid, given by the former f... Read more

No Limit (1936)

7.1/10
Director: Monty Banks
Starring: George Formby, Florence Desmond

'No Limit' is irrefutably a vehicle for chipmunk-cheeked British comic George Formby. He plays a provincial auto mechanic who dreams of the 'Main Chan... Read more

Red Skelton (1954)

8.1/10
Starring: Red Skelton

Paint the town red with this collection of TV show skits. Red Skelton hosted his own series for twenty years after being active in show business from... Read more

Phantom from Space (1953)

4/10
Director: W Lee Wilder
Starring: Dick Sands

A cop and a pair of scientists are lured to an observatory by a series of murders, links to an invisible alien (Dick Sands) who has crash-landed on Ea... Read more

Mud And Sand (1922)

5.8/10
Director: Gilbert Pratt
Starring: Stan Laurel

Stan Laurel brilliantly lampoons Rudolf Valentino as Rhubarb Vaselino who lives in a small village, where he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfightin... Read more

The Story of the Kelly Gang (1906)

6.3/10
Director: Charles Tait

In 1906, Australia produced what was arguably the first ever feature-length film. Shot just outside Melbourne, it recounts the exploits of legendary... Read more