‘The Coens have never achieved such balance in their work before, have never been able to so coherently harness and contain their diverse artistic impulses to...
The First of the Few is an absorbing film biography of R J Mitchell, the designer of the Spitfire, the aircraft that enabled the Royal Air...
While Kenneth More was always known for displaying an archetypal British stiff-upper-lip in the likes of vintage car comedy Genevieve and the first major Titanic drama...
The Guinea Pig was inspired by the Fleming Committee, which in 1944 appointed by the President of the Board of Education, recommended that public school education...
Spring in Park Lane took more money at the British box office in 1948 than any other picture and leads Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding jointly...
Yes, the smirks from the title, The Big Job, are fully intentional. Not surprising when you discover that this cackling British comedy was made by the...
Cimino’s Oscar winning The Deer Hunter is one of the handful of genuine anti-war movies, showing how the Vietnam war affected those who went, those who...
In cult classic Gremlins as Christmas approaches, Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) is passing a Chinatown curio shop when he notices a curious pet for sale: a...
When James Coburn and Charles Bronson turned down the meagre fistful of dollars ($15,000) on offer to star in Sergio Leone’s spaghetti western Per un pugno...
Larger-than-life comedian Jimmy Edwards, who made his name in radio with Take It From Here and scored strongly on television in the Fifties in Whack-O! as...