John Wyver writes: As the world turns, every week can seem more extraordinary, and more distressing, than the last. As a tiny antidote to the hideousnesses elsewhere, here's a selection of stuff that has engaged and enriched my life over more
So I was thinking I would find something a bit different as the lead for this week's Links. Not Shakespeare again, nor movies or television. Then I read one of the scariest pieces of prose to have come my way more
Another Saturday, another review of another DVD set from Network's The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection. Following last week's engagement with the first release, today's post is concerned with Volume 2. Here is another quartet of lesser-known more
Neither rhyme nor reason seems behind the choice of the four films in the first volume of the DVD series that Network have called The Ealing Studios Rarities Collection. Which is most excellent - the apparently more
At the end of each year our friend and colleague Michael Jackson - formerly Chief Executive of Channel 4 and now living in the United States - compiles a list of films he has discovered and appreciated in the previous more
While I have been reading (and enjoying) Colour Films in Britain: The Negotiation of Innovation 1900-55, a major new book by Sarah Street from BFI/Palgrave Macmillan, two key posts have appeared that render a touch redundant what more