Panorama – Is Labour Anti-Semitic?
The BBC broadcast an exposé of antisemitism in the Labour Party last week, much to the chagrin of party spokesman Owen Jones who helpfully criticised the camerawork, likening it to […]
Tag Archives: Hammer horror
Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde
In searching for the elixir of life, Dr. Jekyll’s (Ralph Bates) self-experimentation transforms him into Mrs. Hyde (Martine Beswick) in this Hammer Horror from 1971. Dr. Jekyll and Sister Hyde might […]
Young Frankenstein
Mel Brooks’ 1974 comedy stars the late, great Gene Wilder as Dr. Frankenstein’s grandson, who insists that it’s pronounced “Fronkensteen” and that he’s not mad like his grandfather – until he goes to Transylvania… Like […]
On iPlayer: Quatermass 2
1957 sci-fi Quatermass 2 (AKA Enemy from Space) is available on iPlayer – for the next 7 hours. So get a move on. Hammer’s sequel to The Quatermass Xperiment sees the return of Brian […]
The Mummy (1959)
An British archaeologist (Peter Cushing) is exploring an Egyptian tomb in the late 19th Century. He is warned by a local fez wearer that bad things will happen to the […]
The Curse of Frankenstein
In this 1957 Hammer adaptation of Mary Shelley’s novel, Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee star as the hapless Baron Frankenstein and his gruesome monster respectively. What will follow from fanatical Frankenstein constructing […]
Dracula (1958)
Librarian Jonathan Harker (John Van Eyssen) travels across Europe to seek out the infamous Count Dracula (Christopher Lee), who’s sort of like a white Blacula. This is the film that […]
On iPlayer: The Quatermass Xperiment
In The Quatermass Xperiment, three astronauts are sent into space but when the rocket crash lands in England, only one returns. The man who launched the rocket, Professor Quatermass (Brian Donlevy), […]
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