In highly popular sitcom Open All Hours Arkwright, the brown-coated, stuttering, Northern shop-keeper likes to open his corner-shop for as long as the law will permit....
In Spyder Secures a Main Strand, the opening episode of spy drama series Spyder’s Web, Clive Hawksworth, a member of a highly top secret organisation is...
Sitcom The Growing Pains Of P.C. Penrose followed probationary cop PC Michael Penrose as he started his career in the Yorkshire town of Slagcaster. His immediate...
Comedy drama series that told stories of unsuccessful private eye Billy Gibbs and his ex-wrestler assistant Bloomfield. This short run series only ran 3 episodes and...
Period sitcom that served as a prequel to Last of the Summer Wine. The early days (late 1930’s and 40’s) of Compo, Clegg and Foggy etc....
Sitcom Don’t Tell Father detailed the exploits of vain, egotistical actor Vivien Bancroft. Selfish and self absorbed in the extreme Vivien likes nothing more than lording...
In the Harold Pinterish Contract an episode from anthology series Dial M For Murder, a pair of hit men, Stone and Drew, are tasked with performing...
Anthology series Dial M For Murder told stories where murderous intent was the focus. The linking device was that a phone featured in some way to...
Sitcom that focused on retired businessman Redvers Potter (he of Potter Mints, The Hotter Mints fame) who just can’t help himself when it comes to getting...
Spy drama series Spyder’s Web tapped into the then highly in vogue cold war espionage genre mixed with more than a teensy bit of The Avengers...
Before Scary Movie, the Wayans family took a switchblade to the homeboy genre with this tongue-in-cheek homage to the swathe...
Few things demonstrate the zeitgeist better than war movies. The liberal lobby – from Platoon to Three Kings – has...
Adapted from AJ Cronin’s novel, this is the story of a minor diplomat, played with admirable restraint by Michael Horden,...
In this pleasant adaptation of the H G Wells novel, John Mills plays the eponymous Mr Polly who, disillusioned by...
In Deadly Exchange, Samantha and daughter Blake invite Chloe, a foreign exchange student from Britain, into their California home. The...
In gripping thriller Deadly Shores a woman moves away to a distant island as she becomes the new bride of...
In Tyler Perry’s comedy drama I Can Do Bad All By Myself, when Madea catches sixteen-year-old Jennifer and her two...
In action thriller Waist Deep, ex-convict (Tyrese Gibson) gets tangled up with a gang after his car is hijacked with...
Gritty yet subtle crime drama set gorgeously in and around postwar Tokyo, and directed with psychological complexity by Sam Fuller....
Elf, directed by Jon Favreau, sees Will Ferrell playing Buddy, who as a human baby accidentally ended up in Santas...