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The British sitcom film was a phenomenon that never went away, as while some slipped through the cracks, so there were no It Ain't Half Hot, Mum or Yes, Minister movies, plenty more were...
Bands like to make movies, or at least their management like them to make movies, be they the Beatles in A Hard Day's Night, Slade in Flame, or Pink Floyd The Wall, the attraction...
Although Alf Garnett as a character belonged to the nineteen-sixties, under the tutelage of writer Johnny Speight and actor Warren Mitchell he proved unexpectedly long lasting, turning from the reacti...
There's some credible claim for Harold Pinter as the greatest British playwright of the twentieth century, and his prolific quality means there's plenty of material from him to judge by. He eventuall...
Weird science fiction at the movies fell out of favour in the nineteen-eighties and into the nineteen-nineties, certainly there was the occasional release that gathered some attention and higher profi...
When Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey was released in 1968, it ushered in a new era of science fiction; yes, there were the movies that adhered to as much realism as they could muster, a...
Matt Frame is the Canadian director of the 80s slasher spoof Camp Death III in 2D!, a barrage of cheerful bad taste where no joke is too stoopid to include, and it has been picking up fans worl...
The history of urban myths informing horror movies has been one the film industry itself has been slightly reluctant to acknowledge, but the horror genre has benefited more than others, maybe more tha...
There was a time in Britain, from about the nineteen-fifties to the nineteen-seventies, when David Nixon was one of the most famous men in the country, although as is the way with many a huge celebrit...
If there was one thing you could rely on during the nineteen-fifties, it was science fiction movies were not always intended to fill you with awe, nope, they were intended to frighten the wits out of ...
For many decades, the British depicted their Empire in film as the heroes but come the nineteen-sixties a remake of Sanders of the River just wasn't going to cut it no matter how fashionable vi...
Not every movie star gets to go out on a high, and for Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy their final roles in a film were of great embarrassment to them both, for everything involved with it seemed to go d...
"1997. New York City is now a maximum security prison. Breaking out is impossible. Breaking in is insane." Whoever came up with the tagline for John Carpenter's Escape from New York truly e...
Kenny Everett (1944-95) was one of the most popular radio presenters ever to emerge from Britain, a regular on the airwaves on various stations for decades, but that was not only where he was to be fo...
Britain's Hammer Studios were to begin the nineteen-seventies seemingly geared up to continue as they had done in the sixties, churning out a bunch of horror pictures every year, and enjoying the frui...
The United Kingdom has, since the Victorian times saw P.T. Barnum and Buffalo Bill's shows imported, been fascinated by entertainment from the other side of the Atlantic, sure it's sometimes looked do...
From its beginnings in the early nineteen-fifties to its winding down almost four decades later, The Children's Film Foundation was a well-intentioned attempt to entertain Britain's kids specifically ...
Halloween, it is safe to say, was the movie that made John Carpenter's career, and once that slasher classic had been unleashed on the world there was great anticipation at what this new talent...
Horror and science fiction movies were as popular as they ever had been in the nineteen-eighties, particularly the ones out of the United States where state of the art make-up and visual effects were ...
Spiritualism, the idea that one can communicate with the spirits of the dead, had been around since the nineteenth century thanks to the worldwide sensation caused by the American Fox sisters who were...
When Edgar Allan Poe penned his horror story The Murders in the Rue Morgue, he would never have guessed at what he was about to unleash on the world. Yeah, yeah, it was essentially the first d...
Here's a question: you more or less know what you're going to get with a Jackie Chan film, certainly from his heyday in the nineteen-eighties and nineties. Loads of martial arts action, stunts only t...
Sorry to start out an article on The Goodies by mentioning Monty Python, but they both started around the same time on the BBC, 1970, and neither had sprung fully formed from the ether, as ther...
For some reason, much as horror and science fiction entered a mini-heyday in the late nineteen-seventies and early eighties, so did another genre: the British spy film. Obviously the most prominent o...
