Flash Back: ‘Life After Flash’
❉ It could have been so easy to poke fun at such a camp, OTT movie but this film treats its subject with respect and love.
Flash Gordon
Aura(l) Pleasures – Queen’s ‘Flash Gordon’ Soundtrack
❉ Queen’s music is a fundamental part of the texture of Flash Gordon, an artful fusion of sound and vision, writes Don Klees.
This is Hardcore: ‘Pulp’ (1972)
❉ Mike Hodges and Michael Caine’s follow up to Get Carter, recently released by Arrow Video.
John Deacon: An Appreciation
❉ An appreciation of Queen’s ‘quiet one’ – bassist extraordinaire and chameleonic songwriter.
Cult Q & A: SMERSH POD’s John Rain
❉ John Rain on Dog Man Star, Galton & Simpson, Peter Cook, Twitter and, of course, Smersh Pod.
Cult Q & A: Mark Wright
❉ This week: Mark Wright, writer, comic scripter, and co-author of best-seller Who-ology.
Doctor Who and the Second Summer of Love: Part 2
❉ Was Who anticipating the future with Greatest Show in the Galaxy, or akin to a ‘leaky punk vessel’?
Countdown to TV action – Part 1!
❉ With Mindhorn in cinemas, we count down the 25 greatest TV action intros of the 70s and 80s…
Apeman, Spaceman – ‘2001: A Space Odyssey’ revisited
❉ Often copied, never equalled – the legacy of ‘2001’ in the centenary year of Arthur C. Clarke, who died on this day in 2008.
You have got your Power! ‘Power of the Daleks’ at the BFI
❉ 50 years to the day, the debut of Patrick Troughton as Doctor Who lived again, thanks to a team of extremely talented and committed animators.