Whilst excavating for a new Underground station in London, a mysterious artefact is unearthed. Bernard Quatermass is brought in to examine it and identify its origins. What was thought to be an unexploded bomb from World War 2 is, in fact, an alien craft containing insect-like residents of Mars. I love any film that gets …
It was great timng when I started to get completely obsessed with the work of Martin Scorsese in the late 80's because it wasn't long before a pretty much indispensable text was published that lifted the lid on his oeuvre to a frighteningly thorough degree. There was already the excellent Scorsese on Scorsese that was …
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My first Book of the Week is The Film Handbook by Geoff Andrew and published in 1990. This is a book that lists a MASSIVE range of auteurs and directors, gives a potted history of their film career so far and then names selected highlights from their filmography that every film fan should see whether …
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