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"It's a mess - only the phonies liked it!" So said star Humphrey Bogart about Beat the Devil, probably because he invested a fair sum of his own money into the production and it fell with a re...
Alfie, the 1966 comedy drama that consolidated Michael Caine as a movie star, may not have needed a sequel, but it got one nine years later with Alfie Darling, based on the novel by Bill...
Roger Ward is one of Australia's most instantly recognisable character actors, with a resume that takes in many cult movies: Mad Max, Turkey Shoot, Quigley Down Under, T...
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Of all the directors to emerge from the French New Wave of the nineteen-sixties, Jacques Demy (1931-90) may have been the most idiosyncratic, which considering some of the competition included Jean-Lu...
Long before Michael Winner won renown as one of the crassest film directors around, in the wake of his megahit from 1973 Death Wish, he was a promising young talent with very definite views on ...
On Saturday 1st February, 2020, Sony Channel broadcast a day of vintage television episodes notable for featuring movie stars in their nascent acting form. From Charlie's Angels to Starsky ...
There was one big problem with Sidney Lumet's Cold War thriller Fail-Safe when it was released in 1964: it wasn't funny. If he and his screenwriter Walter Bernstein had adapted the novel by tw...
With the death of Terry Jones, a month after the fiftieth anniversary celebrations in 2019 of the groundbreaking television series he was a part of, Monty Python's Flying Circus, there was even...
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Being There was not the final film of Peter Sellers, but for his fans, it was the last one of note, for after making it he starred in the spoof The Fiendish Plot of Dr. Fu Manchu, a prod...
My Thirty Best Films of the 2010s
It has been a decade of tumultuous change in cinema. In terms of how audiences actually watch movies (with the rise of streaming services). What kinds o...
There were loads of terrific films in the 2010s, from the multiplex to the arthouse, but here's my Top 30, followed by the runners-up by year. You can't go wrong with these, either for sheer entertai...
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It was a heck of a mountain to climb for Lionel Jeffries to direct a follow-up to The Railway Children, one of the most successful British children's films of all time, probably because it was ...
For a picture that was designed to portray the ultimate hetero male sexual fantasy of attractive women throwing themselves at you at every turn, there was something curious about What's New Pussyca...
For British viewers, sitcom Dad's Army needs no introduction, it has just always been on, or it seems like it. Starting in 1968 and running eighty episodes long until 1977, the series establis...
Michael J. Pollard (1939-2019) was a character actor who could only have been a star in the nineteen-sixties, and that stardom translated into the equally sympathetic seventies. The diminutive perfor...
In 1941 in the Rhondda Valley, Wales, on the night of April 29th, something unimaginable happened. Even though there was a World War on, rural areas were left alone by the Blitzkrieg of Nazi bombing ...
Comedian Frankie Howerd (1917-92) had a career that, it's safe to say, had its ups and downs, there are times he was genuinely in the doldrums and others when he was on top of the world as his brand o...
By the mid-nineteen-seventies, John Cleese had made his name with the Monty Python team and their series of sketch shows, but would decline to join them in their fourth and final set of programmes, si...
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Monty Python's Flying Circus was a low budget comedy show that aired on BBC television in a late night slot, starting in the autumn of 1969, but it did not stay there as it quickly gained a fan...
In 1967, the hippy musical Hair was the hottest ticket on Broadway, as it would go on to be across the globe, staged by various companies and a magnet for the younger generation who found its m...
