columbo

Review: Rian Johnson’s WAKE UP DEAD MAN – Hopefully The Knives Out Franchise Dies Here

The Knives Out franchise started off well enough with, well… er… Knives Out in 2019. An in-between Bonds flick for Daniel Craig, it was an amiable enough time-passer that was nothing spectacular, but not quite as sophisticated as writer-director [...]

December 27, 2025

Blu-ray Review: COLUMBO – The 1970s Complete Collection

Peter Falk’s iconic turn as Los Angeles police Lieutenant Columbo stands as one of television’s most enduring characters. The series, which began with a 1968 TV movie and continued into the 1990s, revolutionised the detective genre with [...]

July 9, 2024

Just One More Thing: The Genius Of COLUMBO

Columbo – the name conjures up images of Peter Falk in his beige trench coat as he solves crime in the City of Angels. The show is probably one of the most iconic and beloved television shows of all time and it’s easy to see why. The set [...]

October 21, 2020

Danger Man: Remembering Patrick McGoohan

In the 1960s Patrick McGoohan starred as John Drake in Danger Man, and then as Number 6 in Danger Man’s unofficial spin-off The Prisoner, a surreal but iconic show that has gone down in cult-legend despite only lasting seventeen episodes. The [...]

October 17, 2020