"Evil spirits come in on the wind..." One of the great pre-Code movies that simply wouldn't exist three years later: it's sleazy, sordid and sexy with Garbo dominating proceedings. Thalberg signed it off so if you like it, love him and hate yourself. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0023...

"This is your fault, Paul..." Cushing's descent into darkness is class and Lee's monster scary but other than that, I was disappointed. I found it such a slog with nowhere near enough Frankensteining. Throw in a killing spree and flaming torches already! #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0050...

"Steve McQueen ain't got shit on you..." More of the same really - every other line shouted, so much swearing it becomes tiresome, action sequences done better elsewhere and potentially funny moments squandered by its self-satisfied, charmless main stars. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt8385...

"Never saw you drinkin' in the afternoon before..." I preferred it on my first viewing but I still thought it was excellent this time. Fatalistic, downbeat and dark with a great John Garfield turn and one of the saddest and most haunting endings of them all. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0042...

"Are you washing the car with old assholes?" Hollywood's most smug leading men team up in a movie I'm sure has been made many times in similar formats over the last 20 years. It was entertaining but not enough to override its unoriginality and predictability. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1959...

"Gotta get yer underwear washed..." Everyone who ever lived is in this Cinerama epic that suffers on the small screen but must look incredible when projected properly. Sluggish at times but when it's good it's great. The shootout on the train is incredible. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0056...

"Who we shootin' at?" A pretty good précis of what's wrong with modern blockbusters: supposed high-stakes undermined by an over-reliance on CGI, characters staring earnestly at screens while spouting faux-military bullshit and no sense of jeopardy whatsoever. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1440...

"I shall die on the gallows..." MGM's all-star, opulent, pre-Code drama is sheer class. Sets, costumes, performances, score and directing all have the perfectionist pawprint of Irving Thalberg stamped on them in this revolving, Art Deco, doorway to the 1930s. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0022...

"Believe me, friend, it takes all kind to make up this whole world..." Farmer contends with no fresh water, mardy grandma, whining kids, dull wife, aggressive neighbour, no tractor, ramshackle house, flooding and his own lack of charisma in this dreary tale. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0038...

"Like a friend, though you breathed your last before he breathed his first..." Schlocky, bloated and immature, it has similar topics and themes to the superior #SinginInTheRain (1952) but with nowhere near the levels of wit or sophistication that classic has. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1064...

"I'm never going back to what I planned..." The U.S. government recruits 'Amelia Earhart' to fake disappear over the Pacific so they can spy on Japanese defences while searching for her - but Japanese intelligence are onto the plan... Amazing propaganda. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...

"Evil spirits come in on the wind..." One of the great pre-Code movies that simply wouldn't exist three years later: it's sleazy, sordid and sexy with Garbo dominating proceedings. Thalberg signed it off so if you like it, love him and hate yourself. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0023...

We stumbled across this the other night and I thought it looked like shit - backgrounds looked like they'd been added digitally as an afterthought and maybe 75% of dialogue was ADR. Still ended up watching it all (it was too late to give up and start a good film), but it's cinematic junk food.

"This is your fault, Paul..." Cushing's descent into darkness is class and Lee's monster scary but other than that, I was disappointed. I found it such a slog with nowhere near enough Frankensteining. Throw in a killing spree and flaming torches already! #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0050...

"Steve McQueen ain't got shit on you..." More of the same really - every other line shouted, so much swearing it becomes tiresome, action sequences done better elsewhere and potentially funny moments squandered by its self-satisfied, charmless main stars. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt8385...

"Never saw you drinkin' in the afternoon before..." I preferred it on my first viewing but I still thought it was excellent this time. Fatalistic, downbeat and dark with a great John Garfield turn and one of the saddest and most haunting endings of them all. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0042...

"Are you washing the car with old assholes?" Hollywood's most smug leading men team up in a movie I'm sure has been made many times in similar formats over the last 20 years. It was entertaining but not enough to override its unoriginality and predictability. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1959...

"Gotta get yer underwear washed..." Everyone who ever lived is in this Cinerama epic that suffers on the small screen but must look incredible when projected properly. Sluggish at times but when it's good it's great. The shootout on the train is incredible. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0056...

"Who we shootin' at?" A pretty good précis of what's wrong with modern blockbusters: supposed high-stakes undermined by an over-reliance on CGI, characters staring earnestly at screens while spouting faux-military bullshit and no sense of jeopardy whatsoever. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1440...

#JamesDean died aged only 24 #OTD in 1955. #RIP #FilmSky

"I shall die on the gallows..." MGM's all-star, opulent, pre-Code drama is sheer class. Sets, costumes, performances, score and directing all have the perfectionist pawprint of Irving Thalberg stamped on them in this revolving, Art Deco, doorway to the 1930s. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0022...

#JamesDean died aged only 24 #OTD in 1955. #RIP #FilmSky

Yes, it is a bit dreary but I like it all the same.

"Believe me, friend, it takes all kind to make up this whole world..." Farmer contends with no fresh water, mardy grandma, whining kids, dull wife, aggressive neighbour, no tractor, ramshackle house, flooding and his own lack of charisma in this dreary tale. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0038...

"Like a friend, though you breathed your last before he breathed his first..." Schlocky, bloated and immature, it has similar topics and themes to the superior #SinginInTheRain (1952) but with nowhere near the levels of wit or sophistication that classic has. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1064...

"I'm never going back to what I planned..." The U.S. government recruits 'Amelia Earhart' to fake disappear over the Pacific so they can spy on Japanese defences while searching for her - but Japanese intelligence are onto the plan... Amazing propaganda. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0035...

My friend @craigimann.bsky.social is introducing the 6pm screening of this at #Sheffield's Showroom Cinema tonight. He's a huge fan and a brilliant speaker so he'll really do it justice. If you can make it, please do go see it. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0017...

I've seen, it's quite entertaining isn't it?

Love this film

"I supplied every army but the Salvation Army..." Straight into my best films of the 21st-century list with its blackly-comic screenplay and fantastic, self-hating, performance from Nic Cage. Intelligent, witty and world-weary, it's a modern classic. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0399...

"I thought he wasn't supposed to leave his coffin when the sun was up..." With its caricature performances, mockney swagger and cheesy dialogue, it felt like a parody or a spoof. It looked pretty good though, I'll give it that, but otherwise forgettable. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0099...

"Today's about the fire..." An interesting watch that didn't quite reach its potential and could have explored its themes a little more, while abandoning a few clichés. That said, as a calling card for a young writer/director, it worked really well. Not bad. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1518...

"Let's just keep punching, boys..." Returning to George Stevens' heavy, uneven epic for the first time in 27 years was an experience in that (for me) it has a creeping sense of doom, knowing James Dean died a week to the day after filming his final scene. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0049...

"Bloody will be your end..." Replacing #ThroneOfBlood (1957) as my favourite #Shakespeare adaptation, this modern classic was so far up my street (1930s...) and so timely too. Utterly brilliant in every single respect, I wish I'd seen it much sooner. Ace. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0114...

"The next time you ride in armed, you ride out feet first..." There were three moments when characters slammed doors etc. and the whole set shook and I hated the theme song but otherwise, a fine, solid western with lovely cinematography and a great cast. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0050...

"He became a one-man death squad..." #JohnWick meets #WorldWarTwo in this uber-violent little beauty where words aren't wasted, Nazis are. Gory, darkly amusing and beautifully-shot, it's a fun, lean 91 minutes that doesn't take itself remotely seriously. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1484...

Metaphor for my whole life in my Year 9 diary.

Amazing to think that somewhere in the world right now, either online or in person, there'll be a film bro describing that tracking shot in Wings as "ahead of its time."

"I supplied every army but the Salvation Army..." Straight into my best films of the 21st-century list with its blackly-comic screenplay and fantastic, self-hating, performance from Nic Cage. Intelligent, witty and world-weary, it's a modern classic. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0399...

Metaphor for my whole life in my Year 9 diary.

"I thought he wasn't supposed to leave his coffin when the sun was up..." With its caricature performances, mockney swagger and cheesy dialogue, it felt like a parody or a spoof. It looked pretty good though, I'll give it that, but otherwise forgettable. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0099...

"Today's about the fire..." An interesting watch that didn't quite reach its potential and could have explored its themes a little more, while abandoning a few clichés. That said, as a calling card for a young writer/director, it worked really well. Not bad. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt1518...

"Let's just keep punching, boys..." Returning to George Stevens' heavy, uneven epic for the first time in 27 years was an experience in that (for me) it has a creeping sense of doom, knowing James Dean died a week to the day after filming his final scene. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0049...

That's on the LR shelf, looking forward to it!

"Bloody will be your end..." Replacing #ThroneOfBlood (1957) as my favourite #Shakespeare adaptation, this modern classic was so far up my street (1930s...) and so timely too. Utterly brilliant in every single respect, I wish I'd seen it much sooner. Ace. #FilmSky www.imdb.com/title/tt0114...

Amazing to think that somewhere in the world right now, either online or in person, there'll be a film bro describing that tracking shot in Wings as "ahead of its time."

Oh, this is lovely! Thanks for sharing it!

Frankie Laine's song sounds so much like a parody that I've come to like it; the score is fine, the VistaVision is *lovely*. Burt & Kirk, similarly fine, but I have questions. Doc - why'd you buy all those damn knives..?