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Hello, what's this? It's still Moonbase Alpha, but there are notable differences: No Professor Bergman (Barry Morse had declined to be in season two), different sets and costumes, Sylvia Anderson no ...
Ah, remember September the 13th 1999 when the Moon broke out of Earth's orbit? All those earthquakes, and Yugoslavia was particularly badly hit. We never did see the Moon again, did we? All those p...
Cartoon features and shorts alike had scared their target audience before, you just had to look at Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs back in the nineteen-thirties to acknowledge tha...
Clegg (1970) aka The Bullet Machine and Harry And The Hookers
From what I gather--because you can always fully trust that whatever appears on film is 100-percent objective...
Nigel Kneale (1922-2006) was a British author of novels and screenplays, but his lasting contribution to his country's culture was in the realm of science fiction, as important a figure in the particu...
Harry Dean Stanton had been acting in films and television since the nineteen-fifties when in the seventies he began to gather a cult following from his knack for appearing in movies that garnered tha...
The Punisher was not always a hero, or antihero to be precise: he started life in the pages of The Amazing Spider-Man as a villain obsessed with killing the webslinger and was never intended to...
Dr. No in 1962 was the movie that changed popular cinema, introducing British agent 007, James Bond, to the silver screen where he has remained in various incarnations ever since. But where th...
James Scott grew up in an artistic household, as both his parents were artists, and this informed his career path into film and television, then eventually his own artwork in later life as his work gr...
The nineteen-eighties did love their computers. As the new technology was lifted from the hands of the military, the scientists and the corporations, it landed with the public, who were seeing it inv...
In the nineteen-eighties, as the realm of special effects moved on in leaps and bounds, a particular type of horror movie followed in its wake, capitalising on the ability to craft the more outlandish...
Alan Whicker, that much-imitated and much respected television journalist, an interviewer par excellence, continued his self-titled adventures into 1969 when Europe and Australia beckoned, the present...
Short films used to receive plenty of exposure at film festivals, before headlining cinema features and on television, often as filler between the main programmes but nevertheless often demonstrating ...
At the point the second millennium turned to the third around the year 2000 (or 2001, if you were being pedantic) the idea of the music movie had been dominated either by the rock documentary, which r...
There was a definite change in the nineteen-seventies compared with what had gone before, and it seemed to happen with alarming speed, as one minute the hippies looked to be taking over the world with...
If ever there was a neglected genre of the cinema of the nineteen-seventies, not in popularity but in how much coverage it had once its heyday was over come the eighties, it was the Italian crime flic...
These days it seems as if every movie out of Hollywood that makes even a slim profit or generates a modicum of publicity will also spawn a sequel, even if it's the company that holds the rights to the...
The nature of much of television is ephemeral, most of it is broadcast once and never seen again, but a memory of a clip can last a lifetime: what was the show where...? Programmes dealing with genre...
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...
On the subject of deluded villains, they didn't come much more deluded than Brian Thompson's "Night Sl...
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...
During the summer season many film festivals fill the film circuit displaying everything from big studio blockbusters to offbeat foreign fare. Few festivals echo back to a time when silence was golden...
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...
