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Jean-Pierre Melville (1917-73) is best known these days for his ice-cool crime dramas, specifically the Alain Delon vehicle Le Samourai where he showed off the handsome star to his best advanta...
How do you follow a movie that changed movies forever? If you were George A. Romero (1940-2017) and you had made Night of the Living Dead, you might have been tempted to rest on your laurels, ...
There are certain givens in a Japanese monster movie, or kaiju eiga, the main one being that one or more cities are going to get absolutely trashed. These symphonies of destruction became a staple of...
Play for Today started as a successor to BBC TV's The Wednesday Play of the nineteen-sixties, replaced for the new decade commencing 1970 with a more flexible format that would last unti...
Bruce Forsyth (1928-2017) was the British King of Light Entertainment for decades, from his first hit television show Sunday Night at the London Palladium in the nineteen-fifties to his last tr...
Sort of a Chinese Romeo and Juliet had those two diehard romantics been pressured to kill one another, The Bride with White Hair was a major hit in Asia, and Hong Kong especially, its territory...
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Breathless wasn't supposed to change the movies forever, it was supposed to be director Jean-Luc Godard's tribute to Monogram Pictures, the tiny, Poverty Row studio best known for churning out ...
If any television genre owed something to the old style of variety, which packed out theatres for most of the twentieth century, it was light entertainment. Synonymous with shiny studio floors, an or...
Orson Welles lent his name to many an enterprise as his life went on, largely with the purpose of raising funds for his own projects which stuttered into life - if he was lucky, and if he was luckier,...
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You know that old adage that you're never less than six feet from a rat in this world? Thanks to the internet and its related technology, now you can say with some truth that as you go about your day...
Some directors are lucky enough to be an overnight success, but David Lynch was not one of them. He had made a small handful of short films before tackling his feature debut Eraserhead, but it...
Somehow, werewolves on film are more adaptable than any of the classic monsters, despite being landed with as many rules and regulations for their portrayal as vampires. We all know the bloodsuckers ...
Rose: A Love Story is a romantic horror film starring Sophie Rundle and Matt Stokoe, who also penned the script, set in a wilderness of trees where a man obsessively looks after his wife, who s...
"But what I really want to do is direct!" We've all heard that one before, and it seems every big star from Sir Laurence Olivier to Madonna has wanted to try their hand at the helm of their own movie...
Ever since George Melies took up his camera at the turn of the nineteenth century, there have been filmmakers endeavouring to recreate dreams on film, as the medium is often described as akin to watch...
Ruckus and Lane Skye are a husband and wife team of writers and directors who gained international interest from their work scripting Becky, which pits a thirteen-year-old girl (Lulu Wil...
The circus has fallen out of favour as a location for films, and not even those Cirque du Soleil-style acrobatic spectacles make much of an impact on the twenty-first century medium, aside from one as...
The home invasion genre was not a new one by the time The Strangers was released in 2008, in fact you could go way back to the nineteen-fifties and the Humphrey Bogart thriller The Desperate...
Honey Lauren is a writer and director whose latest short is Wives of the Skies, a provocative and surprising pastiche of the way air hostesses were expected to present themselves back in...
After the Fox holds an odd position in star Peter Sellers' canon, for it marked the point when his career started to go on the wane, although this was only in comparison to his superstar status...
It's called The Beautiful Game in Britain, football that is, though if you're not a fan you may wonder what's so beautiful about it. Indeed, if you're not a fan, then maybe you're a film buff instead...
Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd were a match made in movie heaven, which ironically is where they ended up, their lives curtailed by mental health issues and alcoholism to each die at the age of fifty yea...
If there's a big name in British science fiction, the brand that anyone can recognise across the world, it is Doctor Who, the BBC Television series that has lasted, on and off, from 1963 to thi...
