Dr Keith M Johnston

A special Halloween-inspired change to the advertised programme: my look at The Feminine Touch (1956) will appear later this week, but I t...

Not a film about Will Hay haunting a branch of Marks and Spencer’s (which could have been amusing) but a more standard comedy-thriller ...

While watching this Will Hay-starring comedy, I was reminded of the different release strategies that companies take when releasing British...

This Dublin-set story of fate/kismet contains several elements that could form a strong comedy but it is almost fatally let down by casti...

Given the strength of The Ship That Died of Shame , I had hoped this wartime spy thriller would prove as compelling and focused: instead,...

Film no. 12 was going to be Against the Wind but given George Baker’s death yesterday, I thought we’d look at one of his two Ealing appear...

A strange little film that, although featuring some interesting flourishes, does tend to fulfil Charles Barr’s assessment of it as ‘unwork...