With an ingenious script, engaging characters, nerve-shredding suspense, genuinely frightening set-pieces and laugh-out-loud funny bits An American Werewolf in London is a prime candidate for the finest horror-comedy ever made. Americans David (David Naughton) and Jack (Griffin Dunne) are backpacking in northern England when Jack is killed by a wild beast and David is bitten. Back in London ...
Campion may not be the role that Peter Davison is most famed for, but his take on the period sleuth is nonetheless extremely watchable, in a production skilfully adapted from the writing of Margery Allingham. Starring as Albert Campion, Davison's adventures are more relaxed and less extreme than the kind of detective dramas that make up the schedules of contemporary television. But ...
There are many reasons to recommend Troy as a good ol' fashioned Hollywood epic, especially if you've never read Homer's The Iliad. Dispensing with Greek gods altogether, this earnestly massive production (budgeted at upwards of $200 million) will surely offend historians and devoted students of the classics. But there's politics aplenty in the grand-scale war that erupts when Trojan prince ...