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Skylight

In Films by Paula Hammond - Features EditorLeave a Comment

David Hare’s iconic Skylight is one of the NT Live’s most watched titles. Recorded back in Wyndham’s Theatre in London’s West End in 2014, when it was originally broadcast, it …

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Carry On Girls!

In Features by Paula Hammond - Features Editor

Whether it’s Barbara Windsor’s seaside-postcard bubbly blonde, Joan Sims’ hysterically historical leading lady, Hattie Jacques’ authoritarian maiden aunt, or Valerie Leon’s statuesque strumpet, the Carry On girls were stoic, sexy, …

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Worzel Gummidge: The Combined Harvest Edition

In DVD/Blu-ray by Paula Hammond - Features Editor

Worzel Gummidge: The Combined Harvest Edition is a bumper pre-Christmas release celebrating everyone’s favourite scarecrow: Worzel Gummidge. Walking, talking scarecrow Worzel Gummidge (Jon Pertwee) lives on Scatterbrook Farm, where he …

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Charlie Chaplin Vs. America

In Features by Paula Hammond - Features Editor

To the world, he was the lovable Little Tramp, to the American establishment, he was a dangerous liberal with an internationalist outlook …  Scott Eyman’s riveting new book is a …

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Ivor The Engine: The Colour Series

In DVD/Blu-ray by Paula Hammond - Features Editor

Coming to blu-ray and DVD just in time for Christmas … Ivor the Engine: the Colour Series was Oliver Postgate and Peter Firmin’s ‘reboot’ of their original black and white …

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Pandora’s Box

In DVD/Blu-ray by Paula Hammond - Features Editor

G.W. Pabst’s melodrama, Pandora’s Box remains as impressive today as it was when it was released in 1929. Reviled and bowdlerised for decades, if you’ve seen the film at all, it’s …

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Beach of the War Gods

In DVD/Blu-ray by Paula Hammond - Features Editor

Should you ever have the urge to blend Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai with the sort of historical action film typified by Hero or Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, then the result wouldn’t …

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Monarch: Legacy of Monsters

In Features by Paula Hammond - Features Editor

Monarch: Legacy of Monsters is quite simply monstrously good sci-fi. Following the thunderous battle between Godzilla and the Titans that levelled San Francisco — and revealed to the world that …