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"She had a lot of problems." That was the not inaccurate tagline for writer and director John Waters' Female Trouble, the follow-up to his notorious cult classic Pink Flamingos, which t...
Jack Hargreaves (1911-94) was one of the key movers to get ITV off the ground in the 1950s, with a specific interest in Southern Television, one of the number of regions the independent television ser...
When director Joel Schumacher (1939-2020) died, there were plenty of people who worked with him who lined up to pay tribute, as he was very well-liked, especially among actors, and had a reputation ar...
Takeshi Kitano (1947- ) made his name as a wacky comedian in his native Japan, but had always wanted to be a movie star, not a television celebrity, and in 1989 he started to establish himself as exac...
Martin Scorsese (1942- ) may be best known for the feature films he has directed in his long career, but he also made a number of short works, especially in the first half of his life, that may not co...
It helps if your comedy has a great premise, and for Laughter in Paradise, the 1951 film with an impeccable ensemble cast, it was so good it's surprising it had not been dreamt up before, or us...
Dance, Girl, Dance came and went in 1940 without anyone paying it much attention, indeed it was a box office flop, and this in an era when backstage musicals and movies where the characters "pu...
Baby Love was a big movie back in 1969, when it saw its major release. Not big in budget, or even particularly big with stars, but it was a substantial hit, landing just outside the top ten mo...
The Pet Shop Boys are one of the defining bands of the nineteen-eighties, and continue to be successful to this day with their legion of fans, so back in the decade that made them famous they did what...
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' comic book Watchmen (1986-7) was, along with Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns, the major work of the eighties in that medium, certainly out of American...
The fourth series of Monty Python's Flying Circus of 1974, its title shorted to simply Monty Python, was one man down before they even began it, as John Cleese had refused to appear, ins...
Here's a question for you: what's the most controversial cult movie of all time? Could it be John Waters' Pink Flamingos, Stanley Kubrick's A Clockwork Orange, or the Belgian Man Bit...
As the nineteen-sixties turned into the seventies across the world, gay rights were as much on the agenda as women's rights, and many cultures recognised and reflected that. But while the West opted ...
Possibly Mark Cousins' crowning achievement in the field of film documentary was his The Story of Film: An Odyssey from 2011, and although he has matched that since in various ways, its epic de...
There was a pleasing symmetry to Fritz Lang's filmography, as although Dr. Mabuse The Gambler was not his first film to make an impact, it was probably the one that endured from the silent days...
With the dust settling on the Star Wars sequel trilogy, and television looking a far more comfortable place for the saga and its spin-offs to continue, what happened with the movies after the i...
Given how much of the human body can be squishy, the most visibly squishy parts of it must be the eyes, and for good reason many people get uneasy about anything getting too close to them, even contac...
Films that raised a scandal in their day do not always last the test of time: who remembers No Orchids for Miss Blandish now, never mind would be outraged by it if they happened to watch it in ...
Should you happen to watch the 1963 pop musical What a Crazy World, keep an eye on one of the supporting actors, the short, rather angular, dark-haired chap who is part of star Joe Brown's cote...
Every culture across the globe has its ghost stories, some are intended as parables of a sort to teach a lesson to the listener, some are merely entertainments to produce a frisson of fright just as a...
Director Tsui Hark made his reputation as one of the most innovative of the action directors out of Hong Kong in the 1980s, especially in the West, with his 1983 wuxia Zu: Warriors from the Magic M...
It is always fashionable in science fiction to paint the future as a time to be feared, as no matter how far innovations in technology will go to make life a lot more comfortable for the world, there ...
One of director Nicholas Ray's favourite of his own works was also his first at the helm: They Live By Night. A protégé of Elia Kazan, he was attracted to the loner in his fiction, detailing t...
The Central Office of Information was established in 1946, as after the war it was felt a dedicated department was necessary to relay information to the British public through the medium of film, but ...
In 2017, the German television serial Babylon Berlin proved a huge success in its native land, proof that a crime series did not have to be British or Scandinavian to catch the imaginations of ...
