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It would be fair to say that the period from 1977 to 1986 could be considered a Golden Age for science fiction cinema, particularly for devotees of space

A 1975 espionage thriller directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Robert Redford, the fourth of their seven collaborations, Three Days of the Condor is an adaptation of James

With the advent of the Space Race in the early nineteen sixties, the American film industry turned its attention once more to a genre which had been languishing

“If another of these things should ever be found we are armed with knowledge, but we also have knowledge of ourselves and of the ancient, destructive urges within

By night, car taillights recede into the distance, a pattern of shifting red. By day, Tom and Jan sit by the M6, the camera shifting towards them as

“When we were making the first Edgar Allan Poe film, House of Usher… I had no idea that I would be making a series of them,” recalls Roger

It is no secret that Hollywood is the Ouroboros, the snake that consumes itself, endlessly remaking and reinventing, hoping to create itself anew so the audience doesn’t realise

With over three hundred editions produced during the fourteen year run from 1970 to 1984, BBC’s Play for Today strand was conceived as immediate and contemporary, offering political

To many he will forever be associated with the Monty Python team, where he influenced the visual style of their Flying Circus, most particularly in the linking animations

In a much more personal editorial piece than our normal critical anaylysis, Alaster Philips takes an enthusiastic look at the work of the Dutch director Paul Verhoeven, best