Free Cinema is now acknowledged as a highly influential moment in British cinema history, which not only re-invigorated British documentary in the 1950s but also served as a precursor to the British ...

A crippled crime writer with close contacts at Scotland Yard and a young male assistant under his influence, takes an unhealthy interest in a series of gruesome London murders, all carried out with ...

Despite the fluctuating reputation of British cinema in subsequent decades, there is little doubt that between 1895 and 1905 the best British pioneers fully deserve to be ranked alongside their ...

Bigoted East Ender Alf Garnett rails against the world in endless arguments with his family: his "silly old moo" wife Elsie, their daughter Rita, and her "Scouse git" husband Mike. It soon became ...

A character actress of unusual intensity, Katrin Cartlidge moved seamlessly from early success on Channel 4 to far more challenging big-screen work with Mike Leigh and Lars Von Trier. Her shockingly ...

How a small studio brought new blood to the British horror film ...

Stacey, a pilot in the Fleet Air Arm, is disgraced when he recklessly causes the death of a colleague. Later he is given the opportunity to redeem himself. Where the later films concentrated on ...

Cast: May Clark (Nursemaid), Blair (Rover), Cecil M.Hepworth (Father), Mrs Hepworth (Mother), Barbara Hepworth (baby), Sebastian Smith (soldier), Mrs Sebastian Smith (beggar woman) A simple story of a ...

Alastair Sim was a memorable character player of faded Anglo-Scottish gentility, whimsically put-upon countenance, and sepulchral, sometimes minatory, laugh.

Several centuries of triumph and tragedy in ancient Rome, from the wars of Coriolanus through Julius Caesar's assassination and Mark Antony's fatal romance with Cleopatra. In contrast to the more ...

The Stephens must be one of TV drama's most miserable and dysfunctional families. Over four plays, the events of one tragic weekend are told from the point of view of each member of an ordinary ...

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