Your basket is currently empty!
Category: Snugberth Cinema
-
Deep Water
2006 Dir: Louise Osmond, Jerry Rothwell 93mins Documentary In a year when there have been two movies made about Donald Crowhurst and his ill-fated quest to win the Golden Globe Race in 1968, it’s salutory… […]
-
Shackleton’s Captain
2012 Dir: Leanne Pooley 85 mins The story of Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated 1914 bid to cross Antarctic is one of the most extreme survival epics of the 20th century. All the more so because Shackleton took… […]
-
Blackbeard’s Ghost
1968 Dir: Robert Stevenson Walt Disney 107 mins Talk like a Pirate Day is on September 19 and, if you’ve any inclination to pull off more than a few “aarrs” or a “Jim-m’-lad” or two,… […]
-
Down to the Sea in Ships – Reviewed
1949, Dir Henry Hathaway, B&W, 20th Century Fox, PG, 120mins The character development in this classic New Bedford whaling tale makes you realise how much of modern cinema is rubbish. Its three central actors visibly… […]
-
Captains Courageous
1937, Dir Victor Fleming, B&W, MGM, DVD, U, 112mins It’s not just the star-studded cast that brings this movie to life – much of the footage takes place aboard real working Grand Banks schooners of… […]
-
-
All Is Lost
2013 Dir: JC Chandor 106 mins This is a contentious review because many sailors just hate this film. It has a cast, of one – Robert Redford, who has about one main word of dialogue… […]
-
Knife in the Water
1962, Dir Roman Polanski, B&W, Anchor Bay, DVD, PG, 90 mins This black and white film from behind the iron curtain in 1962 is quite a revelation. Like: they had yachts in Communist states? Who… […]
-
