Noirvember: He Ran All The Way
Our crime cinema retrospective continues with a look at one of the most impressive and paranoid thrillers of the 1950s.
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Noirvember: The House Across The Lake
A pre-gothic Hammer Films crime melodrama that is better than you might expect.
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Strung Up! The Golden Age Of Comic Book Bondage Covers
The outrageous kinkiness of classic comic books and their BDSM-inspired creators.
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Halloween Hammer: Dracula
Continuing our look at Hammer Horror with the classic, peerless first entry in their Dracula series.
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Halloween Hammer: The Hound Of The Baskervilles
Continuing our Halloween-month exploration of Hammer Horror with the company’s sole Sherlock Holmes adaptation.
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Halloween Hammer: The Man Who Could Cheat Death
Continuing our Halloween Hammer Horror exploration with a look at one of the company’s lesser-known titles from their early ventures into the gothic.
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Halloween Hammer: The Mummy
Our series of Hammer Horror film reviews for the Halloween season begins with their radical reinterpretation of the most moribund series in the Universal Monster canon.
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Aldous Huxley’s Theatre Of The Mind
The author narrates a 1956 radio drama based on his classic novel Brave New World.
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Sid Davis And His Stranger Danger Films
The melodramatic and shocking educational films of 1950s and 1960s America.
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The Magnificent Seven Samurai
Akira Kurosawa’s action movie masterpiece remains one of the most thrilling movie experiences ever made.
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G-Eyefuls – Korean War Glamour Girls
A selection of sexy pin-ups helping to hot up the Cold War in the 1950s.
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Away From It All: Vintage British Holiday Resort Advertising
Classic holiday resort posters promising a world of sun, sea and sophistication for British holidaymakers who avoided the temptations of the continent.
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