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Alan Whicker was possibly the most famous television journalist of his time and given his heyday lasted around two decades it was his unmistakable style that made him so, with his impeccably dressed a...
The premise of staging actual deaths for sport or spectacle goes back to the times of Ancient Rome, and the fact that thousands of people, be they gladiators or Christians thrown to the lions, met the...
David McGillivray had been a fixture of the British exploitation film ever since the early nineteen-seventies when come the twenty-first century he decided to try his hand at producing with a string o...
Considering Ian McCulloch made his name as far as horror fans went with a trio of Italian shockers, it’s appropriate that he should have made his debut in a chiller, way back in 1966 with the Roddy Mc...
Film director Ken Russell was well into his thirties by the time he was establishing himself as a talent to watch, he had been in the Army for a spell but his heart lay with the arts, and after trying...
It's quite the dichotomy, but it's probably the only major franchise that has lasted so long with this as its defining feature, even though you're supposed to take it seriously. The James Bond series...
Cinema has always had a suspicion of the art world, even poor old Vincent Van Gogh in the guise of Kirk Douglas in Lust for Life struggled for recognition from the establishment who could not r...
Split into four films, American Epic highlights a slice of American music history seemingly lost until now. The first three films take place in the 1920s spanning the United States from New Yor...
As with the Western, the demise of the movie musical was overstated for they continue to be made to this day, but there was an undoubted decline from somewhere in the nineteen-seventies as productions...
Cannon Films did not start the ninja craze in the action movies of the nineteen-eighties - some cite Chuck Norris in The Octagon as the real beginning - but you had to agree they certainly popu...
When Lance Henriksen had a small role in Steven Spielberg's science fiction blockbuster Close Encounters of the Third Kind, he was in the grand finale where the aliens arrive to meet with human...
By the nineteen-eighties, the popularity of horror fiction was well-represented in both books and film, and one tended to feed upon the other as producers and studios hungry for ideas would raid the p...
Project Moon Base (1953)
Project Moon Base has everything you could want in a science-fiction yarn. Well, okay, it doesn't have a chase scene, swordfights, a toe-tapping theme song, ...
Time was when adapting a horror novel into a film meant digging back to the classics, or at least the fairly well-thought of, so the big movies of the early years of the genre tended to be crafted fro...
If it had not been for a fatal car accident in 1970, who knows where the career of Spanish actress Soledad Miranda would have ended up? It's a question that hangs over her death in the minds of her f...
Although the United Kingdom had its Keep Britain Tidy campaign running from the late nineteen-sixties onwards, with posters and leaflets you hoped did not end up tossed aside in the street like Roy Hu...
In Britain back in the nineteen-eighties, if you wanted to scare yourself when you were of a tender age, then the best way to go about it would either be to watch a video nasty should you be able to g...
Not everyone likes being told what to do, when to do it and the method to use, even if it will do them good, so for public information films there is an obstacle to overcome in that they would be play...
There had been werewolf movies around almost since the horror genre began in the silent days, but the real hit that established a bunch of rules seeming so authentic they became part of the folklore w...
While over in the United States there were a wealth of animation studios jostling for position, in Britain for many decades there was really only one that made much of an impact until Bob Godfrey, Cos...
The sword and sorcery genre that blossomed briefly in the nineteen-eighties took a few forms, but mostly what you'd get would either be set in some desert landscape, or at least some sunbleached regio...
The British disease is what is often called its class system, but the antidote in the mind of many a commentator is the power of laughter, and the nation's comedy has long had a tradition of taking th...
If there was one film said to have affected the brilliant cartoonist Charles Addams the most in his formative years, it was James Whale's Universal horror of 1932 The Old Dark House, which drew...
Movie street gangs tended to be very different from actual street gangs in that the silver screen versions would feature much exaggeration, stylisation and general souping up to conform to genre. The...
He is revered by countless millions, worshipped around the globe. Many can recite his most profound words verbatim, so deep is their devotion. You can even find placards, auto accessories and T-shir...
