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BLADE RUNNER: A Live Adaptation at The Lass O’Gowrie
Our friends at Manchester’s Lass O’Gowrie pub are continuing their series of audacious adaptions this weekend as they bring Blade Runner to the stage! One of the most influential pieces of 80’s cinema (directed by Ridley Scott from a script based on Philip K Dick’s “Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep?”), Blade Runner is the [...]
Withnail & I LIVE in Manchester
What better way to pay tribute to the pissed up, tranquilizer-popping, dope smoking and randy uncle-dodging work of genius that is Bruce Robinson’s Withnail & I than to stage a performance of it in a pub? Like V for Vendetta, it’s all part of the Lassfest 2013 festivals, in which Manchester pub The Lass O’Gowrie [...]
Taking the V: Bringing an Enigma to Life
V for Vendetta is writer Alan Moore and artist David Lloyd’s seminal comic series from the eighties. The story depicts a near-future police state in which a Fascist party called Norsefire hold power. It is against this backdrop that V, an anarchist revolutionary, undertakes a campaign to bring down the government. Now a new stage adaptation of V [...]
Awesome Captain Scarlet Replicas on eBay!
If you can remember the adventure and excitement of Gerry Anderson’s Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, Thunderbirds or Firerball XL-5, or even if you are just a huge Gerry Anderson fan, you can now relive and with enough creativity even recreate those adventures that enchanted tons of kiddies in the sixties and seventies. An E-Bay [...]
Cumberbatch: Rant Off!
Benedict Cumberbatch found himself in the middle of a polarizing debate recently when it was noted that the Sherlock actor had made a complaint that being “posh” may have lead him to not not be considered for certain types of roles over the course of his career. This has been picked up and picked apart [...]
Cult Publishers Expo is Coming!
On the 13th of October The Cult Publishers Expo will be taking place at the Cinema Museum in Kennington, London. In attendance will be some of the most well known names in well, cult Publishing. The group of publishers attending includes Big Finish, Fantom Publishing, Murky Depths, MX Publishing and Cosmic Hobo. But the event [...]
Are You Socializing with Us?
In a slight change from the usual programming here, we’ve news of a couple of things we would like you to know about Cult Britannia and social networking. As you probably know, we use Facebook for commenting, and this enables us to amass new readers via your Facebook friends if you leave your thoughts on [...]
Red Dwarf: Ride With Cat!
Danny John-Jules ,who plays Cat on Red Dwarf, is also an avid lover of motorcycles. John-Jules has formed Motoventures in the last few years, an organization that participates in motorcycle rides for charity. This year Danny John-Jules plans to join the MotoGP during Challenge 125, where three riders must make a journey starting in London, [...]
Actor Peter Halliday Passes
Iconic British actor Peter Halliday has passed aged 87, after a career that spanned five decades. Halliday had also appeared in quite a few British cult television institutions in that time, including A for Andromeda and its follow up programme The Andromeda Breakthrough. Halliday also appeared in The Avengers, UFO, The Tripods and several episodes [...]
Narnia Stage Play to Set Up ‘Stakes’ in London
The classic C.S. Lewis tale, The Lion, The Witch and the Wardrobe is coming to London in a brand new stage production created by Rupert Goold, an award winning producer known for his productions of King Lear, Macbeth and Oliver! Production is being done by the same team that created the modern version of Peter [...]
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