Bob Kellett's Short Films
July 9, 2021The great media historian Julian Petley famously used the phrase ‘lost continent of British cinema’, which could apply to many works, from ABPC major features to Rank light comedies. But to […]
The Champions: A Tribute to Stuart Damon 5th February 1937 – 29th June 2021
July 5, 2021The time – the late 1980s. The place – a village in Hampshire so boring that the headline in the local newspaper read “Local Supermarket to Be Opened by Dusty […]
High Seas Adventures
June 30, 2021Sixty years ago, Hammer Films set out to see if they could make swashbucklers as well as they could horror. Cannily deciding to release them during the summer holidays – […]
Supercar at 60
June 18, 2021By Chris Dale 28th January 2021 may have been Supercar’s 60th anniversary, but we couldn’t let the year pass without doing something very special to mark the occasion! With the […]
Brian Desmond Hurst: The Human Blarney Stone and his Adaptation of The Playboy of the Western World
May 25, 2021By Caitlin Smith I was delighted to learn that Network have remastered the long-lost and long unseen final film of Brian Desmond Hurst, ‘The Playboy of the Western World’ (1962). […]
Travelling Back in Time with Look at Life
May 21, 2021Is time travel possible? Not yet anyway, says the science. But do you actually need to climb into the driving seat of a souped-up DeLorean or walk through the doors […]
Rupert Davies: A Tribute
May 13, 2021On the 20th January 1962, The Guardian published an article Maigret in Paris, which stated that it was ‘incredible that an actor so British in temperament should have established himself […]
Gerry Anderson's Night In
April 14, 2021By Chris Dale Network Distributing and Anderson Entertainment present a feast of Gerry Anderson classics in a streaming ‘watchalong’ from 7pm on the very first Gerry Anderson Day, this April 14th! […]
Gracie Fields: The Mother of Pre-War British Musicals
March 14, 2021Say the name Gracie Fields today and most people, certainly those under pension age, will simply look blank. Yet the woman born above a chip shop on 9 January 1898 […]