In the latest episode of The Channel I’m reviewing a cult movie that looks like it was made in the sixties, but was actually made in the mid-1980s. This classic film, loaded with one-liners and laugh-out-loud scenes, features the first motion picture appearances of Richard E Grant and Paul McGann. It flopped when it was […]
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Many of us who watched the Ace of Wands when it was first broadcast have fond memories of the show, unfortunately, when it comes to the first two series – that’s basically all we have. Of the show’s 46 episodes, first broadcast in the UK from 1970 to 1972, only 20 remain. And I think
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In this edition of The Channel I take a look at the first incarnation of Thames TV’s The Tomorrow People. The show’s original line-up included Nicholas Young, Stephen Salmon, and Peter Vaughan-Clarke. The Tomorrow People was first broadcast in 1973, and is still going strong today thanks to books, reboots, and audio dramas. See my
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In this edition of The Channel I take a step back in time to look at the James Bond movie On Her Majesty’s Secret Service. It was the only James Bond motion picture to feature the real life action man, model, and actor George Lazenby. However, while the movie slightly missed the mark when it
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In this episode of The Channel I’m taking a look at a movie that was first released in 1971. It was the first major motion picture from George Lucas, and it bombed at the cinema. In fact, it was all the executives at Warner Brothers could do to release it at all, they were so
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5) FM Released in 1978 the film FM is about fictional Los Angeles station Q-Sky and the battle between the station’s DJs and the suits who want more commercials and less music (sound familiar?). We see a variety of cliché DJs who each have their personal problems and we get an insight into the pressure
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There are still plenty of people who haven’t managed to sit through all 17 episodes the 60s British cult TV series The Prisoner. On one hand I can understand their frustration as the show doesn’t follow the ‘normal’ hero-beats-the-baddy formula with everything neatly tied up with a bow at the end of the show.
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I read FilmFreak’s review of the 90’s movie The Truman Show this week, and it got me thinking back – way back. When word seeped out in 1997 that a movie was being made about a man trapped in a village many of us movie nuts assumed, wrongly as it turned out, that a big screen version
Roger Moore has entertained me since I was a child and being a Bond fan anyway, I was as pleased as punch to see him take on the role. he was a gentleman, a top chap, and an all-round nice guy.
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Godplex, which had the working title Godspell, is a feature film written and directed by New Zealander Darcy Gladwin. Not to be confused with the sixties stage show, Darcy’s movie features Shane Hollands, a prominent Auckland performance poet.
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