The unheralded musical career of the star of The Champions and General Hospital.
Tag: 1960s
Not A Woman’s Picture! The Twisted Pleasures Of Corruption
Peter Cushing’s secret shame is a more interesting film than most people might expect.
The Making Of The President – 1960
The ground-breaking book that chronicled an election, and the David L. Wolper Kennedy documentaries that it inspired.
Pirates, Brigands And Viking Queens: Hammer’s Swashbuckling Adventures
The family entertainment action-adventure films of the 1960s from Britain’s gothic horror specialists.
The Other Justine – A High Camp Cinematic Car Crash
The George Cukor and Joseph Strick directed all-star melodrama is a kitsch disaster that fans of the accidentally ludicrous may find very much to their taste.
Delia Derbyshire And Anthony Newley Get The Moogies Bloogies
An eccentric and ahead-of-its-time recording by two of the more interesting creative minds of the 1960s.
The Espionage Era: The Ipcress File
Continuing our occasional series looking at the post-Bond spy movies that emerged in the 1960s with this classic ‘anti-Bond’ downbeat thriller that spawned its own franchise.
No Matter How Great You Think The Beatles Were, You’re Wrong. They Were Even Greater
Why the Fab Four really were fab.
The Espionage Era: Our Man In Marrakesh
Continuing our occasional series looking at the post-Bond spy movies that emerged in the 1960s with a rather odd comedy-thriller from the Harry Alan Towers stable.
Western Civilisation’s Highest Point? Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na, Na Na Na Na
Why one day in 1968 with The Beatles was the pinnacle of everything good.
Thunderbirds Are Go – Exhausting Audio Action From International Rescue
Tension overload in a breathless and relentless audio adventure from 1966.
Austin Powers – A Man Of His Time
Looking back at the Austin Powers films, a series now almost as out of touch with modern sensibilities as the character himself. But does that matter?