Mother Russia is calling in this week's Hammer Time as Becky and I look at Rasputin the Mad Monk, sing the praises of Christopher Lee and Barbara Shelley, talk about heavy metal and yes, of course we quote Boney M. Available in all the usual places.
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Becky and I are to Cornwall this week on Hammer Time for an absolute classic, The Plague of the Zombies. Listen here and in all the usual podcast outlets. share.google/QFWydRHViUMx...
Ivo Caprino's The Pinchcliffe Grand Prix (1975) is a wonderfully charming stop-motion tale of motor racing in a small mountain town that has understandably become a national treasure in its native Norway.
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From just before the start of Australian New Wave comes Beyond Reason (1970), a barely remarked upon nuclear attack drama from director Giorgio Mangiamele that never quite manages to pull off its considerable ambitions.
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Skyfall (2012) saw the Bond series getting back on track after the disappointing Quantum of Solace (2008), with more stakes for Bond and M more personal than ever.
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Original title: Flåklypa Grand Prix On 3 January 1983, British television viewers got a late Christmas present when BBC One showed Ivo Caprino’s thoroughly charming stop-motion masterpiece Th…
This barely remarked upon meditation on nuclear war and mental illness was the work of Italian-born, Australian-resident Giorgio Mangiamele, hailed as one of the key figures in pre-New Wave Austral…
Quantum of Solace (2008) had been a disappointing follow-up to Casino Royale (2006) in almost every respect but for the 23rd “official” (i.e. produced by Eon Productions) Bond film, thi…
The Magic Roundabout (1965-1977) is another beloved childhood television memory, a surreal and often very witty reworking of the French show Le Manège enchanté with terrific semi-improvised scripts from Eric Thompson.
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Roger Christian's directorial debut, the atmospheric fantasy Black Angel (1980), went out as support to Star Wars sequel The Empire Strikes Back, making it arguably the most widely seen short film of all time.
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Robert Hughes' Hunter's Blood (1986) is a shameless Deliverance (1972) clone and takes a good while to get going but starts to deliver in a fitfully gory final act. One for hicksploitation completists only really.
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Quantum of Solace (2008) was a disappointing follow-up to Casino Royale (2006) with its frenetic editing and a script that was being re-written by the director and star due to a writer's strike.
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What's this? A remake or infamous shockumentary Faces of Death in 2026? Well no, not quite - it's a meta horror about FoD, with much to commend it though it runs out of steam in a by-the-numbers bloodbath finale.
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