Moviedrome Redux: ‘Shoot The Moon’ (1982)
❉ Life is complex and nothing is easy in Alan Parker’s bold, blistering adult drama.
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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.
Peel Slowly And See: 50 years of ‘The Velvet Underground & Nico’
❉ We celebrate the debut of the band who accidentally invented modern alternative rock music.
Bohemian Rhapsodies: The genius of the Marx Brothers
❉ An appreciation of the quickfire comedy and anarchic spirit of the Marx Brothers.
‘The Time Machine’ (1960) revisited
❉ An appreciation of George Pal’s film, one of the cornerstones of “Steampunk”, released during the height of the nuclear arms race.
‘North by Northwest’: The first Bond movie
❉ How Hitchcock accidentally created the template for the modern action movie.
It’s always fair weather: The musicals of Arthur Freed
❉ We look back on the work of Arthur Freed, producer of the most outstanding musicals of MGM.