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Hill's Angles: Benny Hill and Who Done It? on Blu-ray
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4 Sep 2020
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| Benny Hill (1924-92) was a cheeky comedian who conquered Britain, then the world, but infamously despite being a multimillionaire thanks to his success, never spent his massive profits and preferred t... |
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Big Willie Style: Keep It Up Downstairs on Blu-ray
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3 Sep 2020
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| You probably know the narrative by now: in the late nineteen-sixties into the seventies, the British film industry saw the greater proportion of the Hollywood funding that had helped it flourish, evap... |
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Walt's Vault: 5 Cult Movies on Disney+
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27 Aug 2020
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| Disney+ is a streaming service that quickly became one of the studio's success stories, providing Star Wars, Marvel, Pixar and a host of cartoons and family-friendly movies from throughout their histo... |
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Paradise Lost: Walkabout on Blu-ray
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24 Aug 2020
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| There's a long-running joke about the Australian wildlife (if it is a joke), that it all wants to kill you. Death was certainly very apparent in director Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film Walkabout, a ... |
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What Use is Grief to a Horse? Equus on Blu-ray
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11 Aug 2020
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| Equus, the play, was a sensation on the London stage and later, on Broadway, where it became the hottest ticket around in both locations, so obviously a film had to be made of it to set those p... |
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Eve Knew Her Apples: The Lady Eve on Blu-ray
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3 Aug 2020
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| A Man Chases a Girl (Until She Catches Him), as the old Irving Berlin song from There's No Business Like Show Business goes, a title that could have been inspired by the Preston Sturges romanti... |
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Network On Air: Tempo - Gallery One
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1 Aug 2020
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| Tempo was a British arts series from ABC Television, the northern English and Midlands ITV region from 1956-68, upon which it was broken up and merged. It had a remit that included entertainme... |
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Hard Luck, Buster: The Cameraman on Blu-ray
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16 Jul 2020
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| Comedy was in Buster Keaton's blood: his parents were vaudeville stars who incorporated him into their act, which was very physical. Imagine watching a comedy where a little boy is thrown violently a... |
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At the Hop: Mr. Vampire on Blu-ray
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15 Jul 2020
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| Horror and comedy, as has often been noted, may be strange bedfellows in theory, but get the mixture right and your audience were in for a good time. The Hong Kong film industry churned out crowd-ple... |
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Divine Madness: Female Trouble on Blu-ray
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10 Jul 2020
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| "She had a lot of problems." That was the not inaccurate tagline for writer and director John Waters' Female Trouble, the follow-up to his notorious cult classic Pink Flamingos, which t... |
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Country Matters: Further Out of Town on Blu-ray
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8 Jul 2020
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| Jack Hargreaves (1911-94) was one of the key movers to get ITV off the ground in the 1950s, with a specific interest in Southern Television, one of the number of regions the independent television ser... |
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The Beat Goes On: Takeshi Kitano Collection on Blu-ray
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26 Jun 2020
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| Takeshi Kitano (1947- ) made his name as a wacky comedian in his native Japan, but had always wanted to be a movie star, not a television celebrity, and in 1989 he started to establish himself as exac... |
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Dream Treats: Scorsese Shorts on Blu-ray
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24 Jun 2020
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| Martin Scorsese (1942- ) may be best known for the feature films he has directed in his long career, but he also made a number of short works, especially in the first half of his life, that may not co... |
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It's Only Money: Laughter in Paradise on Blu-ray
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23 Jun 2020
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| It helps if your comedy has a great premise, and for Laughter in Paradise, the 1951 film with an impeccable ensemble cast, it was so good it's surprising it had not been dreamt up before, or us... |
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A Regular Terpsichore: Dance, Girl, Dance on Blu-ray
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22 Jun 2020
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| Dance, Girl, Dance came and went in 1940 without anyone paying it much attention, indeed it was a box office flop, and this in an era when backstage musicals and movies where the characters "pu... |
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