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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The World’s Greatest Double Bills
A collection of irresistible movie pairings from the glory days of cinema.
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Deep In The Heart Of America: Tony Garnett’s Handgun Explored
The socially-conscious film producer’s uncomfortable take on US gun culture and the rape-revenge movie.
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The Unremitting Awfulness Of The Full Supporting Programme
The sheer, unrelenting misery of the British cinema experience in the early 1980s.
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Puncturing The American Dream: Honky Tonk Freeway Reconsidered
John Schlesinger’s notorious flop is a fascinatingly cynical – if heavily flawed – look at American culture.
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The Espionage Era: The Quiller Memorandum
This curious hybrid of Sixties Cold War spy film and old-fashioned Nazi-themed thriller is enjoyable but oddly unsatisfying.
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Supermarket Swept: The Demise Of The Impulse-Buy DVD
Does the decline of physical media sold in supermarkets also signal the end of the British ‘geezer’ movie?
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The Espionage Era: The Ipcress File
Continuing our occasional series looking at the post-Bond spy movies that emerged in the 1960s with this classic ‘anti-Bond’ downbeat thriller that spawned its own franchise.
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The Lost World Of Underground Filmmaking: Richard Baylor and Cirsium Delectus
The last gasp from an acclaimed member of the cinema of transgression ought to have been his stepping stone to bigger things.
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Like An Opera Version Of Tosca: The Crazy World Of Richard Driscoll
The remarkable career of Britain’s most notorious filmmaker explored.
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A Movie With Your Morning Paper
Remembering the time when tomorrow’s fish and chip wrappers contained yesterday’s films.
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The Espionage Era: Hot Enough For June
The first in our occasional series looking at the post-Bond spy movies that emerged in the 1960s is a lovely ‘accidental spy’ romp with Dirk Bogarde and Sylva Koscina.
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