“I think that was the best feeling of achievement and satisfaction I ever had from a film. It was my favourite funny film. There were
Category: Features
FEATURE – William Desmond Taylor: A Hollywood Mystery
Legendary actress Bette Davis once summed the business of Hollywood up by saying “Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life.
FEATURE – VINCENT’S LONDON QUARTET
Vincent Price could well go down in the annals of film history as one of the industries most misunderstood actors. Though primarily remembered for his
FEATURE – HAMMER, THE LAST NAIL IN THE COFFIN
It never ceases to amaze how short the public’s memory is – particularly in the world of entertainment and film. Take for instance the once
FEATURE – A MATCH MADE IN HEIL: THE ZOMBIEFICATION OF HITLER’S THIRD REICH (Part 1)
The world of the horror movie is a funny old place. Even in cinema, an area of entertainment where virtually anything is permissible, the horror
FEATURE – THE GAME’S AFOOT, HOLMES
In 2009 the ex Mr Maddonna (otherwise known as Guy Richie), used the unlikely pairing of Robert Downey Jr and Jude Law to bring
FEATURE – CUT IT OUT, THE ROLE OF THE BBFC
There is an organisation which, whether we are conscious of it or not, effects everyone who watches films either at the cinema or in the
FEATURE – BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S, THE ORIGINAL BREAKFAST CLUB
As fresh today as when Holly Golightly stood on Fifth Avenue with her coffee and Danish in hand, Breakfast At Tiffany’s (1961), the forerunner
FEATURE – FAUST, THE DEVIL’S IN THE DETAIL
Peter Cushing may well have had legendary German filmmaker F. W. Murnau’s Faust (1926) in mind, when he said that he found a creaking door and half
FEATURE – MARILYN MONROE, A CANDLE IN THE WIND!
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” Marilyn Monroe was a woman who clearly practised
FEATURE – ESCAPE ARTIST, THE LIFE OF DOUGLAS SIRK
“This, anyhow, is what enchants me about Sirk: this delirious mixture of medieval and modern, sentimentality and subtlety, tame compositions and frenzied CinemaScope.” The above
FEATURE – CARY GRANT, MR METROSEXUAL
If one man epitomised cinema’s idea of sophistication, it was surely Cary Grant; it could be said Grant invented metrosexuality before modern day stars
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