Classic Film And TV Corner

Noirvember(the month to celebrate all things Film Noir) begins next Sunday.

Whenever I think of films featuring ghosts and haunted houses, it is Jack Clayton’s The Innocents which always springs first into my mind.

How awful to wake up this morning to the sad news that one of the last living links to Hollywood’s Golden Age has left us.

I have long considered Lon Chaney Sr to be the ultimate character actor in the history of film.

Charulata(The Lonely Wife) is my favourite film from the great Indian director Satyajit Ray.

Indiscreet is one of the most tender, sophisticated, funny, surprising, stylish and elegant romances that I have ever seen from the classic film era.

The League Of Gentlemen makes it clear from its very first scene that this is to be a very unusual film.

Just wanted to share a photo tribute to Sharon on the anniversary of her murder.

British society underwent a seismic change during the 1960’s, and this was reflected in the output from our film industry.

Welcome to the fourth celebration of the work of director Alfred Hitchcock.

The Lady Vanishes is one of my favourite Alfred Hitchcock films.

Australian director Gillian Armstrong(Oscar And Lucinda, Mrs.

Hearing the announcement this morning of Sam’s “sudden and unexpected” death felt like a punch to my heart.