Time for another TV Question and this one is one of those that happens every year. In fact this one happens four times a year. It’s...
Sublime writing by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton, in the episode Dish and Dishonesty, gave us ruddy faced Sir Talbot Buxomly (Denis Lill) who had the...
Giant was one of the most talked-about projects in Hollywood in 1955: the epic adaptation of Edna Ferber’s 1952 novel about a girl from Virginia who...
We were lucky that our creative people were so tuned-in to what was happening in the world. It wasn’t that Jim Brooks and Alan Burns created...
Having seen the success of Republic Pictures 1936 film The Three Mesquiteers and it’s numerous sequels, low grade studio Monogram were keen to come up with...
The story of horror at Hammer… It all began in May 1957 when Hammer, a small outfit which made unexceptional features and documentaries, released The Curse of...
Born Sandor Kellner, 16 September 1893 in Hungary, Alexander Korda was a journalist before turning to film where, as founder of London films, he became one...
Horror movies have always been a staple part of cinema, right from it’s earliest beginnings – versions of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde were filmed in...
Many fans of a TV show become panic stricken when they hear that the network has put a show on “hiatus“. Many equate “hiatus” with “cancellation“....
Alfred Hitchcock was one of the most innovative filmmakers in history. Today, directors at film schools around the world pore over every frame of Hitchcock’s films...