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After Star Wars was the colossal hit it was, the genres of science fiction and horror seemed to be revitalised as new talents made their mark in them in Hollywood, creating a mini-Golden Age fr...
There had to be a sequel. We continue our journey through eighties action as we reach 1986...
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Many have observed that while the nineteen-seventies was not lacking in its share of action movies, where every crime thriller worth its salt featured a car chase as a matter of course, it was the fol...
John Saxon is extra-cool. A nice Brooklyn yoot who went to Hollywood, showed up for work every day, didn't get involved in the glitz and the politicking, came across likeable and tough onscreen, and ...
Bela Lugosi seated in a den: "The sparrow flies. But does it go anywhere? Rejoice!"
An out-take from Glen Or Glenda? Yes. And no. While the scene undoubtedly was shot for the auteur's c...
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The craze, if you can call it that, for making movies about Bigfoot can be traced back to a certain clip of amateur footage from 1967, now known as The Patterson-Gimlin Film. In it, a shaky camera ca...
"Was Jack the Ripper the Loch Ness Monster?" a segment of the sketch comedy movie Amazon Women on the Moon enquired in 1987, which showed how far the tale of the Victorian serial killer murders...
Dick Emery was a comic who had paid his dues, and by the nineteen-seventies his hard graft had paid off with one of the most successful comedy shows on television thanks to his Saturday night broadcas...
There had been pop music movies made in Britain before the Beatles thundered onto the scene with A Hard Day's Night, but they were rooted in the sensibilities of the nineteen-fifties, with two ...
Charlie Chaplin was the most celebrated of the silent comedians to emerge from the Hollywood of the nineteen-tens, and had got his big break as part of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone comedies, as an...
Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz drew his world-famous Peanuts comic strip for nearly fifty years, starting in 1950; his final work was published on the same day as his death in 2000, but even this distan...
ITV noted well the success of its rival channel BBC1 and their festive celebration Christmas Night with the Stars which had begun in 1958, so in 1969 the independent television channel decided ...
Awwww, you and your snookums have decided your unrivaled sphere of love will be expanded, completed and made even more joyous by bringing a child into the world.
You are "procreating" according to ...
By 1969, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were beginning to tire of their signature puppet television shows, and the man putting up the money, Sir Lew Grade, identified a need for a live action series, both ...
Rio Bravo came about because some of those involved in crafting it had seen High Noon, and to put it mildly were not best pleased. How could a Sheriff, played by Gary Cooper, be reduce...
Quentin Tarantino, for it was he, called Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier "The Queen of Women" for her contribution to cinema, but at the time she was headlining her movies, there were a number of actres...
Weird doesn't quite begin to cover what the American brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay present in their films, self-created worlds that are so insular in their realisation that they seem deliberately ...
For over thirty years, actor George Sanders was not only Hollywood's idea of what a cad should be, with his characters' callous disregard for other feelings matched with a cruel, biting wit, but the w...
When is a zombie just too fast? If they are moving quickly, are they really zombies anymore? For some horror purists, it's not on to see the massed hordes of the undead traveling at anything other t...
Spain in the nineteen-seventies was still labouring under the fascist rule of General Franco, but even there, as with other regions of the world, a loosening of censorship was being felt in the nation...
Putting a lot of recognisable names in your Hollywood movie was not a trend that started with the decade of the nineteen-seventies, for there had been examples stretching back to the likes of Alice...
Superheroes are in an interesting position in pop culture in that they demand you take them seriously when actually they could, with a little tweaking, be very silly indeed. The concept of the comedy...
Alan Clarke (1935-90) made a small handful of feature films, including the comedy drama Rita, Sue and Bob Too which often shows up on television to this day, only fitting as it was the small sc...
I remember it like it was the day before yesterday. Having returned home after a long pensive walk on the beach (yes, they have beaches in Philadelphia--shut up), I called my parents into the kitchen...
