Friday Night Movie number 152 – The Day of the Triffids
This is a classic telling of John Wyndham’s frightening tale of carnivorous plants that suddenly become murderous. This creepy and gripping story is made…
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Friday Night Movie 151 – Island of Doomed Men
This was a bit of find, a really good ‘prison island’ type movie made in 1940 with some brilliant acting from the late great…
Friday Night Movie 150 – Fate Is The Hunter
A terrific, well written and well acted air crash drama for you all this week. Fate Is The Hunter, made in 1964 and starring…
Friday Night Movie – Extra Helping
The 1970’s scifi series ‘Space 1999’ has like many programmes and movies of this genre of this era, not aged well. Most people know…
Friday Night Movie 149 – ‘Master Spy’.
This an intriguing film and one I’d not come across until recently. Master Spy made in 1964 doesn’t have any huge acting talent names…
Friday Night Movie number 148 – ‘They Were Not Divided’
It’s another British WWII movie for you tonight but this is primarily because I love old British WWII movies. In fact I love these…
Friday Night Movie number 147 – Twelve Angry Men
One of the greatest achievements of the legal systems of the Anglosphere, and more specifically the United Kingdom, is the phenomenon of trial by…
Friday Night Movie 146 – This Happy Breed
This happy breed of men, this little world, This precious stone set in the silver sea, Which serves it in the office of a…
The Covington Catholic School affair. The big losers are the media
I was holding off writing about this incident as I wanted to write a short but considered piece on the Covington Catholic School affair….
Friday Night Movie number 145 – ‘Faces In The Dark’
This week’s offering for the Friday Night Movie slot is another film that I would call one of British film making’s neglected gems. ‘Faces…
