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There’s a buzz in San Francisco on the night of Thursday 21st November 1963, “the four bees” arriving in the city for twenty-four hours leave before departing for

The sixties were a time of change and possibility, but opportunities depend on circumstance and are not open to everyone; the eldest of four siblings Augusto splits his

Originally released in the summer of 1954 and based on the 1929 novel of the same name by Lloyd C Douglas, Magnificent Obsession was the first film which

A Technicolour fantasia from the golden age of Hollywood now approaching it’s seventieth birthday, Douglas Sirk’s 1955 melodrama All that Heaven Allows receives a 2K restoration as it

An outpost representing the achievements of art, science and exploration of the Age of Reason, that firm foundation of civilisation and its tall walls representing the sum of

Saturday March 24th, 1984, a day unremarkable in history but largely missed by five students condemned to spend their time in detention in the library of Shermer High

Their father regarded within the community as “the best coloured doctor in all of Louisiana,” growing up with a beautiful and loving mother and two siblings, older sister

A dilapidated trailer home in the wooded outskirts of Phoenix, Maryland, the unkempt lawn decorated with pink flamingos, the easily dismissed appearance misleading as it is occupied by

At the Stuyvesant Museum of Natural History, palaeontologist Doctor David Huxley is deep in thought about where to put his bone; it’s the day before his wedding to

He travels the Ohio River preaching his own brand of the gospel, but the Reverend Harry Powell is a snake who insinuates himself in the lives of others,