February 14, 2019
‘This is Orson Welles speaking’ – but when Great Mysteries first aired in 1973 very few viewers could have confused that cigar-smoking figure with anyone else. The DVD box-set is […]
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January 18, 2019
Till Death Us Do Part… found, restored, released at last. ‘Wiped? Me? Bloody wiped? Bloody marvellous, innit? What do they think they’re playing at? But I’ve got the last laugh, […]
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A most unlikely discovery… In the chocolate box of life, the top layer may have already gone (as Bob memorably bemoans in a scene from the 1976 film of The Likely […]
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December 17, 2018
As 2018 draws ever nearer its denouement, Network asked me if I’d look back over their comedy DVD and Blu-ray releases from the past 12 months and select the ten […]
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December 14, 2018
As 2018 draws ever nearer its denouement, Network asked me if I’d look back over their comedy DVD and Blu-ray releases from the past 12 months and select the ten […]
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November 9, 2018
From the mid 1950s until his untimely death in 1978 at the age of just 58, David Nixon was one of the most familiar faces on British television. Known as […]
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October 29, 2018
A few thoughts on Death Line (1972), a great British film directed by an American, Gary Sherman. The Establishment, handily represented by six foot five Christopher Lee in a bowler hat, has […]
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October 22, 2018
This year marks the 130th anniversary of a series of brutal killings that have gone down in infamy. It was in 1888 that the murderer known as Jack the Ripper […]
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October 19, 2018
‘I don’t know about you, but I’m not spending one more minute in this cemetery.’ This obscure, fringe effort from the early 1970s is a picture few saw it on […]
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October 15, 2018
Posh schoolgirl Tessa Hurst (Lesley-Anne Down), whose pink miniskirt seems inches shorter than her classmates’, takes a short cut home through a ravine called Devil’s End, where a thrumming electricity […]
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‘This is Orson Welles speaking’ – but when Great Mysteries first aired in 1973 very few viewers could have confused that cigar-smoking figure with anyone else. The DVD box-set is […]
Read More
Till Death Us Do Part… found, restored, released at last. ‘Wiped? Me? Bloody wiped? Bloody marvellous, innit? What do they think they’re playing at? But I’ve got the last laugh, […]
Read More
A most unlikely discovery… In the chocolate box of life, the top layer may have already gone (as Bob memorably bemoans in a scene from the 1976 film of The Likely […]
Read More
As 2018 draws ever nearer its denouement, Network asked me if I’d look back over their comedy DVD and Blu-ray releases from the past 12 months and select the ten […]
Read More
As 2018 draws ever nearer its denouement, Network asked me if I’d look back over their comedy DVD and Blu-ray releases from the past 12 months and select the ten […]
Read More
From the mid 1950s until his untimely death in 1978 at the age of just 58, David Nixon was one of the most familiar faces on British television. Known as […]
Read More
A few thoughts on Death Line (1972), a great British film directed by an American, Gary Sherman. The Establishment, handily represented by six foot five Christopher Lee in a bowler hat, has […]
Read More
This year marks the 130th anniversary of a series of brutal killings that have gone down in infamy. It was in 1888 that the murderer known as Jack the Ripper […]
Read More
‘I don’t know about you, but I’m not spending one more minute in this cemetery.’ This obscure, fringe effort from the early 1970s is a picture few saw it on […]
Read More
Posh schoolgirl Tessa Hurst (Lesley-Anne Down), whose pink miniskirt seems inches shorter than her classmates’, takes a short cut home through a ravine called Devil’s End, where a thrumming electricity […]
Read More