Category Archives: Culture

For those who are just joining us, let us explain what we are doing here. The idea was to provide, at a rate of roughly one per week, on a Sunday, a hint about some of our most watched films, … Continue reading →

Often considered as one of the greatest of film noir movies (in some lists, in the top thirty movies of all time), “Double Indemnity” was directed by Billy Wilder with script by him and Raymond Chandler. If you don’t know … Continue reading →

I first got interested in the books of Raymond Chandler in the late 1970s when the BBC broadcast a sereis of plays based on his books with Ed Bishop (Captain Blue, Ed Straker etc) as Marlowe. The radio plays were, … Continue reading →