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Dick Emery was a comic who had paid his dues, and by the nineteen-seventies his hard graft had paid off with one of the most successful comedy shows on television thanks to his Saturday night broadcas...
There had been pop music movies made in Britain before the Beatles thundered onto the scene with A Hard Day's Night, but they were rooted in the sensibilities of the nineteen-fifties, with two ...
Charlie Chaplin was the most celebrated of the silent comedians to emerge from the Hollywood of the nineteen-tens, and had got his big break as part of producer Mack Sennett's Keystone comedies, as an...
Cartoonist Charles M. Schulz drew his world-famous Peanuts comic strip for nearly fifty years, starting in 1950; his final work was published on the same day as his death in 2000, but even this distan...
ITV noted well the success of its rival channel BBC1 and their festive celebration Christmas Night with the Stars which had begun in 1958, so in 1969 the independent television channel decided ...
Awwww, you and your snookums have decided your unrivaled sphere of love will be expanded, completed and made even more joyous by bringing a child into the world.
You are "procreating" according to ...
By 1969, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson were beginning to tire of their signature puppet television shows, and the man putting up the money, Sir Lew Grade, identified a need for a live action series, both ...
Rio Bravo came about because some of those involved in crafting it had seen High Noon, and to put it mildly were not best pleased. How could a Sheriff, played by Gary Cooper, be reduce...
Quentin Tarantino, for it was he, called Blaxploitation icon Pam Grier "The Queen of Women" for her contribution to cinema, but at the time she was headlining her movies, there were a number of actres...
Weird doesn't quite begin to cover what the American brothers Stephen and Timothy Quay present in their films, self-created worlds that are so insular in their realisation that they seem deliberately ...
For over thirty years, actor George Sanders was not only Hollywood's idea of what a cad should be, with his characters' callous disregard for other feelings matched with a cruel, biting wit, but the w...
When is a zombie just too fast? If they are moving quickly, are they really zombies anymore? For some horror purists, it's not on to see the massed hordes of the undead traveling at anything other t...
Spain in the nineteen-seventies was still labouring under the fascist rule of General Franco, but even there, as with other regions of the world, a loosening of censorship was being felt in the nation...
Putting a lot of recognisable names in your Hollywood movie was not a trend that started with the decade of the nineteen-seventies, for there had been examples stretching back to the likes of Alice...
Superheroes are in an interesting position in pop culture in that they demand you take them seriously when actually they could, with a little tweaking, be very silly indeed. The concept of the comedy...
