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Written by Jack Martin Cole
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Saturday, 12 June 2010 09:10 |
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You can win Diana Rigg’s debut season of The Avengers, retailing at £59.99, for nominating in this year’s Cult TV Awards. We have three copies to give away to the trio pulled out of our electronic hat, and this is one hell of an incentive to get your ‘thinking cap’ on! The Avengers Series 4 hit UK audiences in 1965-6, with some major changes from what had gone before. More than 80 actresses auditioned for the role before Rigg was discovered. Her screen test with Macnee showed the two immediately worked well together, and a new era in Avengers history began. It was also this series, the first to be on film, but the last to be in black and white, which was sold to US television for the then unheard of sum of $2 million. This made it one of the first British series to be aired on prime-time American Television. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 12 June 2010 09:17 )
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Written by Jack Martin Cole
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Saturday, 12 June 2010 09:04 |
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Brian Clemens’ vivid imagination and flair for elaborate plotting – crossed with his gift for witty banter – have enlivened British TV and cinema for over 50 years, and in that time he has worked for some of the greatest action/adventure series ever made. The BFI is charting the career of the amazingly prolific Mr Clemens in a season of screenings next month. From 2-31 July 2010, the BFI will be raiding the archives, mixing some of his finest work with some of the rarities that the vaults have allowed to be exhumed. Brian has worked on some of the greatest action-adventure series ever made, and the BFI will be screening the likes of The Avengers, Danger Man and, from the big screen, “Captain Kronos: Vampire Hunter”. Mr Clemens will also be appearing live in a pair of interview – one specifically on The Avengers, the other a more general overview of his career. |
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Written by John Payne
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 12:40 |
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Mamoru Oshii, reknowned director of “Ghost in the Shell” and its sequel brings aerial combat and the psychology of war dramatically to life in this new Anime release. Despite being set in a fictional time and place, “Sky Crawlers” feels very much as though it belongs to mankind’s tragic past, present and future. The Sky Crawlers of the title are a bunch of teenage, non-aging, genetically engineered pilots known as “Kildren”. The Kildren fight on behalf of two gigantic industrial corporations called Rostock and Lautern, each armed with its evenly balanced wings of junior combatants. Day in, day out these bands of aeronauts confront each other in the skies in a ceaseless bid to gain economic and strategic dominance. |
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Last Updated ( Saturday, 29 May 2010 12:44 )
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Written by John Payne
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Monday, 07 June 2010 15:03 |
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Six years after Thai sensation Tony Jaa brutally elbowed his way into public consciousness, Indonesia produced this new movie as a launch-pad for another martial arts superstar. Meet boyish actor Iko Uwais, aka Yuda, a Sumatran farmer boy undergoing his personal Merantau or “walkabout”. Before he can be considered a grown up, the adolescent must travel abroad, prove his manhood and find his true place in life. Having arrived in bustling Jakarta, our hero quickly runs into trouble. Firstly, his wallet is stolen by a cheeky street urchin called Adit (Yusuf Aulia). Then he comes to the aid of the little squirt’s sister, Astri (Sisca Jessica) as she is preyed upon by her seedy dance-club boss Johni (Alex Abbad). Unfortunately for the trio, Johni is just a cog in a larger criminal machine, and they find themselves becoming the targets of some very bad men. |
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Last Updated ( Monday, 07 June 2010 15:05 )
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Written by John Payne
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Saturday, 29 May 2010 12:35 |
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Lucio Fulci’s “City of the Living Dead” rose to prominence on the crest of the wave whisked up by Romero’s zombie classics. “City” is not a simple retread, but rather establishes its own take on the genre, presenting the living dead as far more powerful, menacing and unknowable than previously seen in the likes of “Night of the Living Dead”. In the small town of Dunwich, Massachusetts, a priest hangs himself in a church cemetery. This unspeakable act sets in motion the cataclysmic opening of the gates of Hell. As the dead begin to rise, the fate of the world falls on the unsuspecting shoulders of a reporter, a psychic, a psychiatrist and his patient. They have just 48 hours - until All Saints Day - to work out how to seal the unholy rift, or be forever plunged into darkness and suffering. |
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