Sex comedies, sitcom spin-offs... and the rise of a truly independent cinema Besides the sex comedy, the other genre indelibly associated with 1970s British cinema was the television spin-off, based ...

It is a truth universally acknowledged, that a single man in possession of a good fortune, must be in want of a wife... Their cuts produce a faster-paced story, intended to engage contemporary ...

A disparate group of campers band together to rid themselves of hippies planning an all-night rave next to their site. The dramatic contrast between the enclosed, static and make-believe logic of ...

Better than any other genre, social realism has shown us to ourselves, pushing the boundaries in the effort to put the experiences of real Britons on the screen, and shaping our ideas of what British ...

There was certain inevitability that Sydney Tafler would be found playing the title role in Wide Boy (d. Ken Hughes, 1952). In British films of the late 1940s, 50s and 60s, Tafler was most likely to ...

With his gaunt face and slight frame, this Hull-born, RADA-trained actor represented for a generation of filmgoers resistance to the status quo. He is divorced from stage actress Cheryl Kennedy, who ...

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Free Cinema is now acknowledged as a highly influential moment in British cinema history, which not only re-invigorated British documentary in the 1950s but also served as a precursor to the British ...

To look separately at the role of women in the fields of film, video and television in Britain is to recognise that the experiences of women in these areas are somehow different to those of men. The ...

"You've played a lot of fat slobs, haven't you?", asked Jonathan Ross when he invited Timothy Spall onto his chat show The Last Resort (Channel 4, 1987). The rotund, jowly Spall could only agree, ...

The Bermondsey-born son of a fishporter and charwoman, Maurice Micklewhite began in poverty and went on to become one of the most prolific and durable of film stars. After Korean War service, he ...

Cast: Colman King (a man of Aran); Maggie Dirrane (his wife); Michael Dillane (their son); Pat Mullen (member of shark hunting crew); Patch Ruadh (member of shark hunting crew) Many writers have ...