Film
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 [...]
New Releases of Classic Price/Lee Films
Well, it is officially a month past the holidays and now that we have put all of the trees and other festive gear away, we are starting to take a better look at our surroundings and frankly don’t like what we see. It’s cold, we have to stay inside for hours on end and many [...]
In Defence of Neal Purvis and Robert Wade
Anyone who’s been following Cult Britannia’s excellent re-appraisals of the James Bond movies in the run-up to Skyfall’s release may have noticed a continued criticism of one element of the recent films, one I’ve never noticed before. Regular screenwriters Neal Purvis and Robert Wade “don’t have the writing chops to deliver anything unique, original or [...]
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 [...]
Skyfall: Box Office Smash!
After just 40 days in cinemas, Skyfall‘s box office return has been recorded as making an immense £94.3 million in the UK, making this not only one of the best movies in the series but also the most successful – indeed, it is the most successful film in British box office history. Although a nice [...]
Don’t Look Back in Anger: Steed and Mrs. Peel’s 1990s Revival
It may surprise you to know that the years between 1985 and 1992 were quite successful ones for The Avengers. In 1982—five years since The New Avengers fizzled out in a blaze of budgetary cock-ups—Channel 4 repeats of 1967-era episodes (ironically, the first time many British audiences got to see The Avengers in Colour in [...]
Hellraiser: The Technically British Horror Series
In what will be the first in a semi-regular series, I’m looking back at those curious hybrid films—the occasionally unloved stepchildren of international co-production shotgun weddings. Though created and filmed in Britain, and often staffed and produced by Brits, you’ll seldom find them mentioned alongside Four Weddings and a Funeral, Remains of the Day, or [...]
Quatermass Keeping Calm, the Final Part
John Cleese recalled the greatest difficulty he faced writing a second season of Fawlty Towers was that viewers had remembered the highlights of the first season to be the standard, so it was necessary to write something not just better, but better than those peaks. Every sequel has an element of this hype to surmount, [...]
Bond at 50: Quantum of Solace
We continue our mission to review every James Bond film ever released… When Quantum Of Solace was first released, myself and a friend (Ron Brunwin) were writing a 007 stage spoof which would premiere not long afterwards. We wanted a few topical and up-to-date gags about the film to include at the end of the [...]
Skyfall: First Impressions
Given the familiarity with which we all hold the other James Bond movies, it would be wrong to throw a review of Skyfall into our Bond at 50 series without a few hours reflection on the episode. So before publishing a full review, I thought it best to get some things out into the open. [...]
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