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For some observers, writer, director and documentarian Agnès Varda began the French New Wave movement in cinema that spread from the late nineteen-fifties and into the sixties, as her debut feature
The premise of a car that can drive itself, or any vehicle really, is a lot different in the movies to what it is in real life with those computerised wheels that use technology to get you to your des...
As the opening titles of 1971's The World of Whicker announced, Alan Whicker was the globe's most travelled television interviewer, and one of the most respected in his field, certainly he was ...
With the advances in special effects around the end of the nineteen-seventies, it became increasingly possible to realise all sorts of new worlds and characters in the realm of the fantasy movie in th...
Britain's Hammer studio had had a very good run of hits that were synonymous with the horror genre, lasting from the mid-nineteen-fifties with their adaptations of television's Quatermass, thro...
When asked near the end of his life - he died aged 54 - Peter Sellers would say Chauncey Gardener in Being There was his finest role, but he had plenty to choose from, one of the hardest workin...
There had been the occasional Viking sighted on the big screen before 1958 and the Kirk Douglas pet project The Vikings, but when the highest profile of them was a silent movie called The Vi...
Hello, what's this? It's still Moonbase Alpha, but there are notable differences: No Professor Bergman (Barry Morse had declined to be in season two), different sets and costumes, Sylvia Anderson no ...
Ah, remember September the 13th 1999 when the Moon broke out of Earth's orbit? All those earthquakes, and Yugoslavia was particularly badly hit. We never did see the Moon again, did we? All those p...
Cartoon features and shorts alike had scared their target audience before, you just had to look at Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs back in the nineteen-thirties to acknowledge tha...
Clegg (1970) aka The Bullet Machine and Harry And The Hookers
From what I gather--because you can always fully trust that whatever appears on film is 100-percent objective...
Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) was a British author of novels and screenplays, but his lasting contribution to his country's culture was in the realm of science fiction, as important a figure in the particu...
Harry Dean Stanton had been acting in films and television since the nineteen-fifties when in the seventies he began to gather a cult following from his knack for appearing in movies that garnered tha...
The Punisher was not always a hero, or antihero to be precise: he started life in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man as a villain obsessed with killing the webslinger and was never intended to...
Dr. No in 1962 was the movie that changed popular cinema, introducing British agent 007, James Bond, to the silver screen where he has remained in various incarnations ever since. But where th...
James Scott grew up in an artistic household, as both his parents were artists, and this informed his career path into film and television, then eventually his own artwork in later life as his work gr...
The nineteen-eighties did love their computers. As the new technology was lifted from the hands of the military, the scientists and the corporations, it landed with the public, who were seeing it inv...
In the nineteen-eighties, as the realm of special effects moved on in leaps and bounds, a particular type of horror movie followed in its wake, capitalising on the ability to craft the more outlandish...
Alan Whicker, that much-imitated and much respected television journalist, an interviewer par excellence, continued his self-titled adventures into 1969 when Europe and Australia beckoned, the present...
Short films used to receive plenty of exposure at film festivals, before headlining cinema features and on television, often as filler between the main programmes but nevertheless often demonstrating ...
At the point the second millennium turned to the third around the year 2000 (or 2001, if you were being pedantic) the idea of the music movie had been dominated either by the rock documentary, which r...
There was a definite change in the nineteen-seventies compared with what had gone before, and it seemed to happen with alarming speed, as one minute the hippies looked to be taking over the world with...
If ever there was a neglected genre of the cinema of the nineteen-seventies, not in popularity but in how much coverage it had once its heyday was over come the eighties, it was the Italian crime flic...
These days it seems as if every movie out of Hollywood that makes even a slim profit or generates a modicum of publicity will also spawn a sequel, even if it's the company that holds the rights to the...
The nature of much of television is ephemeral, most of it is broadcast once and never seen again, but a memory of a clip can last a lifetime: what was the show where...? Programmes dealing with genre...
