Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1963 epic film Cleopatra was more famous as a media event than a movie – it’s the moment when Elizabeth Taylor met Richard Burton, creating an unprecedented media storm that helped create […]
Ealing Studios’ 1955 black comedy crime film delight The Ladykillers is a deliciously funny film throughout, with Alec Guinness leading a cast to die for. Bafta-winning writer William Rose dreamed the entire film. Packed with […]
Director Danny Boyle’s multi-award-winning 1996 film, based on the novel by Irvine Walsh, is rightly acknowledged to be one of the most original and imaginative films to come out of Britain in the Nineties. Arguably, […]
Simon Pegg and Nick Frost return for the third part of what’s now apparently a loose trilogy of Britcoms. Pegg and co-writer/director Edgar Wright call it The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy. So, just one […]
Gleefully borrowing old video-store ideas left right and centre, Quentin Tarantino extravagantly pays, er, homage to the spaghetti Western in his incredibly lusty, spectacular revenge saga of a strangely kindly German bounty hunter, an ex-dentist named […]
Elrond (Hugo Weaving): ‘I give hope to Men.’ Aragorn (Viggo Mortensen): ‘I keep none for myself.’ The triumphant 2003 film The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King stars Elijah Wood, Sean Astin, […]
The 2002 middle film in The Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Two Towers, is a must-see treat for all those following J R Tolkien’s great adventure, set in a time of turmoil in the […]
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