Dr Strangelove: Or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb
Stanley Kubrick supposedly intended Dr Strangelove to be a serious Cold War thriller but ended up making a comedy due to the unavoidable absurdity of the situation. But in an […]
Tag Archives: 1960s
A Man for All Seasons
This is the story of Sir Thomas More (Paul Schofield), who succeeds Cardinal Wolsey (Orson Welles) as King Henry VIII’s (Robert Shaw) Lord Chancellor. When Henry seeks to leave the […]
I’ve never seen…My Fair Lady
Eliza Doolittle (Audrey Hepburn) is a working class flower vendor on the streets of London. She’s plucked from her meagre existence by Henry Higgins (Rex Harrison), an arrogant phonetician who […]
Fantastic Voyage
A team of scientists take a trip into the unknown which lasts just one hour and can be measured in centimeters, as they’re shrunk down to microscopic size and head […]
The Pink Panther (1963)
When the Pink Panther diamond goes missing, clumsy detective Inspector Clouseau (Peter Sellers) tries to track it down. Watching this in 2017 it’s very hard to see why it’s so […]
Barbarella
Barbarella (Jane Fonda) is on a 41st century mission to stop the evil scientist Durand Durand (Milo O’Shea). Yes, this is where Duran Duran got their name. And possibly their […]
Bullitt
Bullitt is an early example of the great tradition of giving your main character an exciting-sounding-if-preposterous last name so you can use it as the title of the film. In […]
Doctor Zhivago
Doctor Zhivago is a whistle-stop history of Russia in the first half of the 20th Century. A work camp guard (Alec Guinness) finds a woman he believes to be his niece. To fit jigsaw pieces […]
I’ve never seen…Breakfast at Tiffany’s
To give you an idea of how far my prior ignorance of this film went, before watching I thought it was about Audrey Hepburn playing a character called Tiffany who […]
Cleopatra
Not to be confused with the TV series based on the 90s pop group of the same name, Cleopatra is historical epic featuring real life couple Elizabeth Taylor and Richard […]
Screen Goblin 