Category Archives: Films

Cinema (movies if you like) was always a popular form of entertainment. It was inexpensive, readily accessible, you didn’t need to dress up, you didn’t need to be quiet or concentrate (you could eat, snog, talk whatever)… But cinema had … Continue reading →

It started as a tv play from American tv in the early 1950s, and has been re-made many times and is a favourite for theatre groups even now, but the film version of “12 Angry Men” from 1957 is still … Continue reading →

The 1950s was a golden age for science fiction, good and bad. Here are three goodies: “The Thing From Another World” aka “The Thing”. A group of scientists find an alien frozen in the ice at the North Pole. (1951) … Continue reading →