The Film Review (BBC News channel) & Horror Highlights (Horror Channel)

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Summer of '85
- Honest Thief
- The Climb
- Pixie
- The Secret Garden.

[OceanBlue]

The films on last week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Mogul Mowgli
- Relic
- His House
- Shirley
- The Witches
- Wolfwalkers.

[OceanBlue]

The films new to Horror Channel in November (on Horror Highlights):

- Exorcist: The Beginning
- The Exorcist III
- The Heretics
- Lakeview Terrace
- The Arrival
- Triangle.

[OceanBlue]

Last week's new edition of The Film Review was postponed by two days because of some election going on in the States (it eventually first aired last Sunday).

The films on last week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Anna Smith, in place of Mark Kermode:

- Luxor
- About Endlessness
- Love Child
- Lucky Grandma
- A Christmas Gift from Bob.

The edition ended with a brief tribute to the late actor Sir Sean Connery.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Jingle Jangle (starring Forest Whittaker)
- Billie (documentary about Billie Holliday)
- Train to Busan: Peninsula
- Looted
- The Life Ahead (starring Sophia Loren)
- Words on Bathroom Walls.

[Jonathan McLeod]

I don't know why this get topic seems to get so little attention. Always find Kermode a very informative critic, even if I don't always share his tastes.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Jonathan McLeod

I don't know why this get topic seems to get so little attention. Always find Kermode a very informative critic, even if I don't always share his tastes.

Apologies Jonathan for not seeing your post sooner. I keep checking threads I've recently posted in (as well as threads I've started).

Usually, the latest edition of The Film Review is first shown on the BBC News channel on Friday, not long before 6 pm. Occasionly, due to a news story or breaking news story, it's postponed to a later time (either on the Friday or during the upcoming weekend). That's happened today. It's being shown (hopefully) just before midnight tonight.

I like listening to Mark Kermode's opinions, even if I don't always agree with him. I don't listen to the film review radio show he does on a Friday afternoon with Simon Mayo, but I regularly watch The Film Review. They don't always have slasher horror films on The Film Review, so I would have liked to hear what he thought of the new Halloween film from two years ago.

[UltraMario9]

Originally Posted by Jonathan McLeod

I don't know why this get topic seems to get so little attention. Always find Kermode a very informative critic, even if I don't always share his tastes.

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

I don't listen to the film review radio show he does on a Friday afternoon with Simon Mayo, but I regularly watch The Film Review. They don't always have slasher horror films on The Film Review, so I would have liked to hear what he thought of the new Halloween film from two years ago.

I reckon people are more aware of the radio show than The Film Review since the YouTube Channel that uploads review segments is nearing 250,000 subscribers.

Here's his Halloween 2018 review from the official YouTube Channel:

Halloween reviewed by Mark Kermode - YouTube

[OceanBlue]

The films on last week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Skyfire (a disaster movie)
- Hillbilly Elegy (cast includes Amy Adams)
- Collective
- The Kid Detective
- Patrick (Anti-Worlds was mentioned onscreen).

[HillSprinter]

I’m a regular podcast listener. There’s also Kermode & Mayo’s Home Entertainment Service which ran for 6 episodes on BBC4 a while back.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by UltraMario9

I reckon people are more aware of the radio show than The Film Review since the YouTube Channel that uploads review segments is nearing 250,000 subscribers.

Here's his Halloween 2018 review from the official YouTube Channel:

[Show spoiler]Halloween reviewed by Mark Kermode - YouTube

Thanks for posting this Mark Kermode review of the last Halloween ilm. An interesting listen.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Possessor
- Mank
- Audrey (documentary about Audrey Hepburn)
- Nimic
- The Ringmaster
- Uncle Frank.

Anna Smith is in place of Mark Kermode next week.

[OceanBlue]

The films on the December edition of Horror Highlights (some or all of these films have been on the channel before):

- The Ninth Gate
- Wind Chill
- Kill Command
- The Ascent
- Christine
- P2
- The Woman in Black (Hammer remake)
- Sinister.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Anna Smith this week:

- Crock of Gold: A Few Rounds with Shane McGowan
- Host
- A Girl rom Mogadishu
- County Lines
- Happiest Season
- Peter Duncan's Jack and the Beanstalk.

Mark Kermode is back next week.

[OceanBlue]

This week's edition of The Film Review is the last regular edition of this year. Next Friday it's the review of the year (the scheduled timeslot is half an hour on the BBC News channel).

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
- Falling (the directorial debut of Viggo Mortenson)
- The Prom
- Cold Meridian (short film)
- Midnight Sky.

[OceanBlue]

Thought there was an existing thread for the series Mark Kermode's Secrets of Cinema.

A new series (consisting of three episodes) starts on BBC Four next Monday night. Not sure if all three episodes will be about the same genre or sub-genre, but the show's title is sub-titled "British Comedy".

[OceanBlue]

Some of the films on the January edition of Horror Highlights:

- Fright Night (the original)
- Black Death (stars Sean Bean)
- Dark Skies
- Honeymoon
- Last Shift (channel premiere)
- Nightbreed (channel premiere)
- Pacific Heights (channel premiere)
- Radius.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Wonder Woman 1984
- Robin's Wish (a documentary about actor and comedian Robin Williams)
- David Byrne's American Utopia
- Sing Me a Song (a documentary about a monastery in the Himalayas)
- Bloody Nose, Empty Pockets (has had a Blu-ray release in the States)
- Vanguard.

This week's edition (the first new edition of the new year) was presented by Anna Smith, in place of Mark Kermode this week.

[CV19]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Some of the films on the January edition of Horror Highlights:

- Fright Night (the original)

- Pacific Heights (channel premiere)

Pacific Heights is a terrific film. I like Michael Keaton, and for me this has to be one of his best out of all the films I've seen of his. By coincidence, I watched it over the Christmas period - it's on a region-free blu-ray from Sony.

I love the original Fright Night too. I remember getting this on VHS way back in the late-80's. Seem to remember paying nearly £15 for it as it was released by RCA/Columbia at that time, and most of their new titles cost between £12 and £15. I've no idea why I remember that......maybe because I wasn't earning much money at the time, so I was counting the pennies.

[OceanBlue]

The films on last week's edition of The Film Review (DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases):

- Dear Comrades
- Stardust
- Blithe Spirit
- Archive
- MLK/FBI (a documentary about Martin Luther King and the FBI).

Mark Kermode was back on this edition. It was also first shown later on on Friday night (postponed from earlier).