2024

Where Were You When The Lights Went Out (1968)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Of the 25 million stories you could have chosen when New York and the surrounding area was hit by an electricity blackout in the mid-1960s, you could have elected for something more interesting than this farce-style comedy that after the opening sections resembles...…

31st December 2024
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The Digital Bits presents… The Best Discs of 2024!

Here’s the latest from The Digital Bits On this the final day of 2024, it’s only natural for us to take a look back and reflect on the many amazing Blu-ray and 4K Ultra HD releases we’ve been blessed with over the past year. And it’s certainly been a tremendous...…

31st December 2024
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Champions: Full Gallop Returns for S2

ITV today announced Champions: Full Gallop will return in Autumn 2025, following a successful first series. The brand new 6×60 series, produced by South Shore, supported by Flutter, the Horserace Betting Levy Board (HBLB) and Racecourse Media Group (RMG), will be broadcast across ITV and ITVX. Following the dramatic highs and lows...…

31st December 2024
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Fog Island (1945)

STARTLING…The Amazing Tale Of A Fog Swept Place Of Terror! An inventor recently released from prison invites a group of former business associates to a holiday in his island home, intending to exact revenge on them. Director: Terry O. Morse Writers: Pierre Gendron, Bernadine Angus Stars: George Zucco, Lionel Atwill,...…

31st December 2024
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The Women of Pre-Code Vol. 3

Pre-Code Hollywood – An era in American film history between the introduction of sound in movies (1929) and the enforcement of the Motion Picture Production Code (commonly known as the Hays Code) in 1934. During this period, filmmakers had more freedom to explore controversial and explicit themes in their films...…

31st December 2024
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RIP: Angus MacInnes (77)

Source: Hollywood Reporter Angus MacInnes, an actor most known for his role in 1977’s Star Wars: Episode IV – A New Hope and 2016’s Rogue One: A Star Wars Story, has died. He was 77. MacInnes died “peacefully, surrounded by his family and love” on Dec. 23, his family shared...…

31st December 2024
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Tarzan and the Valley of Gold (1967)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Hooray for hokum. What should have been termed Tarzan: The Next Generation takes our hero temporarily out of loincloth but equips him with a hefty Browning machine gun and rudimentary grenade launcher, not to mention the neat tricks of repurposing a giant Coca-Cola...…

30th December 2024
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The Barber Shop (1933)

An inept barber maintains his good-humored optimism in his small town shop despite having a hen-pecking harridan for a wife and a total lack of tonsorial skill. Director: Arthur Ripley Writer: W.C. Fields Stars: W.C. Fields, Elise Cavanna, Harry Watson Cult Cinema Classics…

29th December 2024
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The Good Ship Murder | New Series Trailer

The crime-solving dream team is back but for how much longer… Subscribe to Channel 5 for more: https://bit.ly/35P9Rz7 Channel 5 is home to your favourite TV Shows, Drama, Documentaries, History, Sports and Soaps; everything you are looking for is here! Channel 5…

29th December 2024
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Panic in the Year Zero! (1962)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s While the release of Conclave and Juror #2 augurs well for the future of movies made for the more mature audience, it’s worth remembering that such fare was commonplace six decades ago, even in the lower-budget strata. Well-structured, well-acted drama was never hard to find. Since I...…

29th December 2024
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Casualty: Public Property

Casualty: Public Property, a new series that will explore the line between a public service job and the right to a private life. Where do we draw it? Interview with Anna Chell (Jodie) Jodie has now been in Casualty for over a year, did you expect her to make such...…

29th December 2024
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Rocky Mountain Mystery (1935)

The heirs of the dying owner of a valuable radium mine are being murdered, and a mining engineer tries to uncover the killer and clear his cousin’s name. Alternative title: “The Fighting Westerner” Director: Charles Barton Writers: Edward E. Paramore Jr., Ethel Doherty, Zane Grey Stars: Randolph Scott, Charles ‘Chic’...…

28th December 2024
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A Twist of Sand (1968)

Here’s the latest from The Magnificent 60s Initially promising, ultimately disappointing thriller that proves you should not go to sea without a big budget. Because he is the only skipper to have successfully negotiated the Skeleton Coast off Namibia in South Africa, smuggler Geoffrey Peace (Richard Johnson) gets roped into...…

28th December 2024
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Ben Hecht: Shakespeare of Hollywood

Ben Hecht gave up writing about real life to find success in Hollywood movies. Made by JAK Documentary for The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones on DVD, 2007. Writer & Producer: Mark Page Associate Producer: Jennifer Petrucelli Editor: Joe De Francesco Series Producer: David Schneider Executive Producers: George Lucas &...…

27th December 2024
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Conversations @ Curzon | Robert Eggers on the making of Nosferatu

Director Robert Eggers sits down with Douglas Greenwood at Curzon Soho for a new chapter of Conversations @ Curzon . Eggers discusses the making of his new film NOSFERATU, his long standing obsession with vampires, injecting humour to his films and more. Robert Eggers’ Nosferatu is a gothic tale of...…

27th December 2024
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ITV Week 02 Highlights 2025

Here are the programme highlights for ITV Week 02: Saturday 4 to Friday 10 January 2025 These highlights only relate to a selection of programmes broadcasting across the ITV family of channels. Check out the FlipBook for all the details below:   Always use the Full-Screen option to get the...…

27th December 2024
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