Saturday, 2 October 2021
The Girl on a Motorcycle (1968)
A married woman leaves her husband and zooms off on her motorcycle to see her lover.
Artsy and pretentious exploitation movie seems to have been mainly made to show Marianne Faithfull in leather and various stages of undress, plus some psychedelic sequences as a reference to the zeitgeist; nicely photographed, though.
Halliwell (no star): "An incredibly plotless and ill-conceived piece sub-porn claptrap, existing only as a long series of colour supplement photographs."
Maltin**: "Cardiff also photographed this oddity: a mod, psychedelic, existential tale..."
Next of Kin (1982)
In a rest home for elderly people, a daughter reads her mother's diary. Soon events that are mentioned in the mother's diary begin to happen to the daughter.
Superior horror film nicely builds up the mystery and the tension, but in the end goes no holds barred.
Halliwell (no star): "Slow-starting but finally over-the-top melodrama, with elements drawn from Psycho, Taste of Fear and a score of other creepies."
Friday, 1 October 2021
Teacher's Pet (1958)
A hard-nosed newspaper editor poses as a night school student in order to woo a journalism teacher who cannot stand him.
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