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Lockdown Viewing Recommendation: Richard E. Grant Is Brilliant In WITHNAIL AND I

One of the very few good things to come out of the seemingly never-ending lockdown caused by the Coronavirus/COVID-19 pandemic is the opportunity to watch a variety of different films. One title you might want to seek-out is Bruce Robinson’s [...]

June 14, 2020

Get Back: Peter Jackson To Make Documentary About THE BEATLES Album Let It Be

Fifty years to the day that The Beatles played their legendary last live gig on the roof of the Apple Corps building in Saville Row comes news that Peter Jackson will make a film based around the shooting of the band’s Let It Be. The [...]

January 30, 2019

Review: IT WAS FIFTY YEARS AGO TODAY! THE BEATLES: SGT. PEPPER & BEYOND Is Fab

The Beatles are the most documented band in history, with hundreds of books and films covering the Fab Four’s career from the Cavern Club and beyond. Last year Ron Howard’s documentary The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years put [...]

May 18, 2017

Blu-ray Review: Ron Howard’s THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS Is Fab

You’d think that every story about The Beatles has been told, explored and extrapolated upon over the last half century. In truth, they probably have, but Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days A Week – The Touring Years makes it all seem [...]

November 17, 2016

New Clip From Ron Howard’s THE BEATLES: EIGHT DAYS A WEEK – THE TOURING YEARS

Ron Howard’s The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years takes a look at the Fab Four before they retired from touring and retreated into the studio to record their progressive masterworks. The Beatles’ career has been well documented [...]

September 13, 2016

Blu-ray Review: Find Out Why WITHNAIL AND I Is A Cult Classic With This Wonderful Release

Bruce Robinson’s Withnail And I has become a cult classic, the perennial film that students can watch as they imbibe large quantities of alcohol during daylight hours. Richard E.Grant and Paul McGann play the titular characters Withnail And I, two [...]

November 9, 2014

Book Review: VERY NAUGHTY BOYS – THE AMAZING TRUE STORY OF HANDMADE FILMS

The Beatles, Monty Python, Sean Madonna and Sean Penn – they’re just a few of the larger than life characters and they all help to make up Very Naughty Boys – The Amazing True Story Of Handmade Films . It’s a fast and furious read that chart [...]

September 21, 2013