First Night was an anthology of dramas specially written for television. The series attracted some high profile names. The first one broadcast was The Strain written...
Anthology series of single plays Sunday Night Theatre was a continuation of Saturday Night Theatre just moved to a different day. Towards the end of SNT...
This sharp adaptation of Orwell’s novel by director Michael Radford and Jonathan Gelns wisely avoids the temptation to decorate the story with modish science fiction trimmings...
Having experienced redemption by exorcism, Maya Larkin (Winona Ryder) becomes an assistant to her mentor, Father Lareaux (John Hurt). The pair attempt to ‘save’ murderer Henry...
Nicolas Cage stars as the eponymous Corelli, leader of the Italian invasion force that control the Greek island of Cephalonia. Billeted with the local doctor (John...
Blessed — if that is the word — with thumbs the size of … um, well, a baby’s forearms, Sissy Hankshaw makes good by hitching all...
First broadcast in 1975, the Naked Civil Servant, one of the top plays of the 1970’s. tells the true story of flamboyant homosexual Quentin Crisp from...
When Ridley Scott was chosen for Alien, he was on a roll from The Duellists and Blade Runner and delivered a slick sci-fi whose look and...
Paul Scofield stars in this exquisitely filmed historical drama that swept the 1966 Academy Awards for its artful portrayal of the battle of wills between King...
Frank (John Simm) works in a soon-to-be demolished Yorkshire library when in walks a vision of beauty – Miranda (Christina Ricci). To his amazement, she falls...