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A ½ page article from the April 1983 issue, I never got the chance to see this at a UK cinema and think that it a VHS tape that was my first visit to this monster on the lose in New York flick! By now most of you will be aware of my passion for…

A ½ page article from the May 1973 issue of the ABC Film Review: This post differs from my normal trend of an 8mm release, this was actually a title we had in our 16mm rental library! They were already working titles when I joined Derann in mid 1975 and was one of a number…

A two page article from the May 1981 issue: This 1980 musical family adventure scores a 5.3 rating on the IMDb and seemed to missfire on nearly all counts, although it starred Robin Williams, Shelley Duval, Ray Walston and Paul L Smith and its musical numbers were penned by Harry Nilsson, it did not please…

A review from the May 1987 issue and a 4 page press book: This 1986 war drama  receives an 8.1 rating on the IMDb.  A platoon of American soldiers patrols, fights and dies in the jungles of Vietnam, dealing with the horrors of bloodthirsty warfare. Directed by Oliver Stone it was the winner of four…

Three pages from the October 1954 of Films and Filming: This 1954 drama receives an 8.1 rating on the IMDb and was nominated for twelve Academy awards and won won eight of them.  This was Brando’s sixth motion picture, he plays Terry and he  runs errands for Johnny Friendly who is a gang lord and…

A two page article from the December 1957 issue: Rightfully considered one of the best supernatural thrillers of the 50s, this is an intellegent working of the M R James short story ‘Casting the Runes’. Dana Andrews and Niall MacGinnis give us a masterclass in the art of the casual underplay which all leads to…

A page article from the February 1980 issue: Many 8mm customers must have been surprised when Walton Films issued this title, however the older customers would have remembered that Walton had released 200′ and 50′ glamour films many years earlier. In truth the Walton ’empire’ had been built from the sales of those early entries.…

A three page article from the January 1984 issue: This 1983 action thriller receives a 6.1 rating on the IMDb, and was a reworking of 1965 OO7 movie ‘Thunderball’ in which a S.P.E.C.T.R.E. agent steals two American nuclear warheads, and James Bond must find their targets before they are detonated. It wasn’t a bad movie…

A three page article from the February 1963 issue, plus a souvenir brochure: Firstly ley me begin by saying that I’ve never seen this or any film version of this seafaring drama…. just not on my menu! Nominated for 7 Academy awards and running just under 3 hours it’s obviously an epic in every sense…

A two page article from the January 1952 issue: This movie has a good rating on IMDb and has Humphrey Bogart as a crusading District Attorney, who gets his chance to prosecute the boss of Murder Inc. Albert Mendoza. Originally distributed by Warner Brothers, this 1951 crime thriller was in fact an independent production from…