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), presented by Anna Smith:

- Candyman
- Our Ladies
- The Nest
- Souad
- The Toll.

[OceanBlue]

Some of the films on Horror Channel UK in September:

- Let Us Pray (channel premiere)
- The Last House (UK TV premiere)

- Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (starring Sir Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro and Helena Bonham Carter)

- G-Loc (UK TV premiere)
- The Taking (channel premiere)
- Leprechaun Returns
- The Haunted (UK TV premiere)
- Exorcist III.

[OceanBlue]

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

- Annette
- Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings
- Wildfire
- Misha and the Wolves (documentary)
- Rise of the Footsoldier: Origins
- Long Story Short.

Mark Kermode will be back next week, and after presenting it from his home (the same with Anna Smith) for twelve-plus months, The Film Review will be back in the BBC Television Centre studio next week.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Mark Kermode and Jane Hill (back in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- The Collini Case (the cast including Franco Nero)
- Respect (about Aretha Franklin, starring Jennifer Hudson)
- Herself (Irish drama)
- Annette
- The Servant (being released on UHD Blu-ray in the UK by Studiocanal).

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Mark Kermode and Ben Brown (in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- Rose Plays Julie
- Gunpowder Milkshake
- The Starling
- Best Out: Herself
- UHD Blu-ray release: A Clockwork Orange.

Some of the clips they showed of Rose Plays Julie looked a bit vertically stretched to me.

[DTSBOY]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

Some of the clips they showed of Rose Plays Julie looked a bit vertically stretched to me.

They were and then went to the correct ratio. Somebody done ****ed up...


Ben (thank you very much indeed) Brown should never present this programme. I know he does it in-between the news but he is annoying. Now, Jane Hill, who admits to hating all horror related stuff, is good... Except when a horror film is being reviewed, which sort of defeats the point.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by DTSBOY

They were and then went to the correct ratio. Somebody done ****ed up...


Ben (thank you very much indeed) Brown should never present this programme. I know he does it in-between the news but he is annoying. Now, Jane Hill, who admits to hating all horror related stuff, is good... Except when a horror film is being reviewed, which sort of defeats the point.

I was thinking something similar about presenter Ben Brown, back when The Film Review was in the studio. He looks like he doesn't want to present it (it's part of his contract with the BBC?), at times sounding sarcastic and looking like he's bored. Yet Jane Hill is the opposite, even though (repeating what you've said) there is that recurring gag about her not liking horror films. At times though she can be a bit snobby (which Mark Kermode can be like sometimes). There have been other rotating presenters of the show, including the newsreader who does a humourous programme on weekday afternoons (can't remember his name, but he looks like the actor who played Tony Stamp on The Bill) and a blonde female newsreader who has piercing blue eyes.

[DTSBOY]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

I was thinking something similar about presenter Ben Brown, back when The Film Review was in the studio. He looks like he doesn't want to present it (it's part of his contract with the BBC?), at times sounding sarcastic and looking like he's bored. Yet Jane Hill is the opposite, even though (repeating what you've said) there is that recurring gag about her not liking horror films. At times though she can be a bit snobby (which Mark Kermode can be like sometimes). There have been other rotating presenters of the show, including the newsreader who does a humourous programme on weekday afternoons (can't remember his name, but he looks like the actor who played Tony Stamp on The Bill) and a blonde female newsreader who has piercing blue eyes.

Whomever presents the 5pm news does the film review slot too. Wouldn't say Jane Hill was snobby, just very timid with anything scary. Bless.


Kermode has always been a loathe him or hate him character.


The Tony Stamp imposter has to be Simon McCoy who left the beeb a while ago to be a presenter on that GB News channel. His greatest half hour was the Basil Brush interview which was very funny. IMHO.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Mark Kermode and Ben Brown (in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- The Many Saints of Newark (big-screen prequel to The Sopranos)
- The Green Knight
- Gagarine
- Best out: Rose Plays Julie
- Re-issue: Dune (the original).

Love Twin Peaks myself, but Steedeel I know you also will have really enjoyed Mark Kermode talking about prequel Fire Walk with Me when the re-issue of the original Dune was talked about (he also spoke about Blue Velvet, which I was also glad to hear).

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Mark Kermode and Ben Brown (in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- The Many Saints of Newark (big-screen prequel to The Sopranos)
- The Green Knight
- Gagarine
- Best out: Rose Plays Julie
- Re-issue: Dune (the original).

Love Twin Peaks myself, but Steedeel I know you also will have really enjoyed Mark Kermode talking about prequel Fire Walk with Me when the re-issue of the original Dune was talked about (he also spoke about Blue Velvet, which I was also glad to hear).

Thanks, he said it was one of the best horror films of recent times If I recall correctly.

Very interested in The Green Knight, it looks like a stunner.

[OceanBlue]

Originally Posted by Steedeel

Thanks, he said it was one of the best horror films of recent times If I recall correctly.

Very interested in The Green Knight, it looks like a stunner.

It should be available on the BBC iPlayer, this week's edition. His comments about Fire Walk with Me were very positive (he was comparing it to the Sopranos prequel).

Today was the first I'd heard of The Green Knight (I don't usually take too much notice of what the reviewers say in the 'i' newspaper (who can be a bit snobby, which they no doubt will be about Halloween Kills. But like I think I said in the Movies sub-forum recently, you should judge for yourself whether a film is good or not (in the case of the new Halloween film, poster Samuel Loomis said some very helpful things about it), but they gave it five stars in today's edition).

[Steedeel]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

It should be available on the BBC iPlayer, this week's edition. His comments about Fire Walk with Me were very positive (he was comparing it to the Sopranos prequel).

Today was the first I'd heard of The Green Knight (I don't usually take too much notice of what the reviewers say in the 'i' newspaper (who can be a bit snobby, which they no doubt will be about Halloween Kills. But like I think I said in the Movies sub-forum recently, you should judge for yourself whether a film is good or not (in the case of the new Halloween film, poster Samuel Loomis said some very helpful things about it), but they gave it five stars in today's edition).

The best critics are ourselves, like you say.

Really excited with the mixture of films I have secured on Blu-ray/4K to watch next year. 1 per week for film night (52) and then around 30 to keep for over Xmas and various holidays throughout the year.

The Green Knight was on that list and will be available on German Blu-ray from Dec and 4K in USA.

[OceanBlue]

Some of the films on Horror Channel UK in October:

- Dead Ringers (channel premiere (starring Jeremy Irons)
- Mama (channel premiere)
- Intruders (channel premiere)
- Mom and Dad (channel premiere (stars Nicolas Cage and Selma Blair)
- Incarnate (UK TV premiere)
- Abattoir (channel premiere)
- The Skeleton Key (channel premiere)
- and the Gerry Anderson TV series UFO.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Mark Kermode and Jane Hill (in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- No Time to Die
- Next Door
- Redemption of a Rogue
- Best out: The Green Knight
- DVD: Another Round.

[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:

If the upcoming Halloween Kills is reviewed on the Kermode and Mayo radio film review show, can you post the YouTube video for it please, like you did with the previous Halloween film. Many thanks.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Mark Kermode and Jane Hill (in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- My Little Sister
- Fever Dream (Netflix film)
- Addams Family 2 (animated film)
- Best out this week: No Time to Die
- Physical media release: Deer Skin.

[UltraMario9]

Originally Posted by OceanBlue

If the upcoming Halloween Kills is reviewed on the Kermode and Mayo radio film review show, can you post the YouTube video for it please, like you did with the previous Halloween film. Many thanks.

Halloween Kills reviewed by Mark Kermode - YouTube

[OceanBlue]

UltraMario, thanks for posting the Mayo & Kermode radio show review of Halloween Kills. I will watch/listen to it next week after I've been to see the film.

Each week's new edition of The Film Review is first shown around a quarter to six on Friday afternoons/evenings. However, I think due to a news story this afternoon the first showing of this week's edition has been postponed to later on tonight (around a quarter to midnight).

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Mark Kermode and Jane Hill (in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Ron's Gone Wrong
- Halloween Kills
- Best out now: No Time to Die
- and ear for eye.

[OceanBlue]

The films on this week's edition of The Film Review (cinema, DVD, Blu-ray and streaming releases), presented by Martine Croxall and Mark Kermode (in the BBC Television Centre studio):

- The French Dispatch
- Dune
- Dear Evan Hansen
- Best out at the moment: Venom: Let There Be Carnage
- Physical media release: The Sparks Brothers.