You wouldn’t think so to look at him with his gormless toothy grin and lack of style but ukelele playing George Formby was a massive star...
Arthur Lucan, a well known music hall comedian managed to become one of the UK’s most popular film stars during the late 1930′s and 1940′s thanks...
Gerry Anderson has always played fast and loose with the future settings of his TV shows but none more so than his 1970’s live action classic...
Happy Ever After was your archetypal cosy suburban sitcom, with Terry Scott and June Whitfield as the Fletchers and Beryl Cooke as Aunt Lucy. When Happy...
Ah, the thrills of an election: the unabashed moral compromises, the public gaffes that find eternal life on news broadcasts. With Donald Trump outdoing anything a...
After a long wait, the superb Wallander returns to BBC-1 for three more feature length mysteries. Sir Kenneth Branagh is back in the lead role as...
White-collar hoodlums have been sliming their way across movie screens for years. From the conniving, power-hungry Loren Shaw in 1954’s Executive Suite, to the guru of...
After several impressive films in the Thirties, Carol Reed came into his own after the war with four great triumphs – dark, brooding tales of intrigue...
An actress must never lose her ego–without it she has no talent. — Norma Shearer AS Mrs. Irving Thalberg, actress Norma Shearer ruled over Hollywood with...
“The two big advantages I had at birth were to have been born wise and to have been born in poverty” – Sophia Loren. CHARLIE CHAPLIN...