Why do we still love CLASSIC TREK? CLASSIC TREK: AN INTRODUCTION Over more than six decades, StarTrek has expanded into one of the most successful TV and cinema franchises of the modern era. It has spawned no less than eleven spin-off series, as well as thirteen movies – not to mention innumerable novelizations, comic...
Category: TV and Movies
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VIDEO PODCAST: Pat Garrett and Billy The Kid: That Long Black Cloud…
Chris discurses on Bob Dylan's first entry into 'Hollyeood' with his role in Sam Peckinpah's PAT GARRETT AND BILLY THE KID, supplying its beautiful soundtrack and some 'interesting' acting! The movie is the source of the Dylan classic KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR, though some versions of the movie leave it ourt!!"! Grrr!!!
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PODCAST: The Prisoner Episode by Episode 2) The Chimes of Big Ben
Chris Gregory examines THE CHIMES OF BIG BEN, the second episode of Patrick McGoohan's THE PRISONER
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PODCAST: The Prisoner Episode By Episode 1) Arrival
Chris looks at the first episofe of THE PRISONER, the extraordinary ARRIVAL
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…YOU MUST FORGIVE ME MY UNWORTHINESS… TWO FILMS ABOUT BOB DYLAN’S ROLLING THUNDER TOUR Part One
A look at two films about Bob Dylan's ROLLING THUNDER TOUR: ROLLING THUNDER: A BOB DYLAN STORY ad RENALDO AND CLARA
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THE PRISONER: Episode by Episode
THE PRISONER: EPISODE BY EPISODE This extended blog is intended as a companion to my book Be Seeing You: Decoding The Prisoner, which was originally published in 1997. It is also written in anticipation of the new TV remake of the series, and in tribute to The Prisoner’s primary creator Patrick McGoohan, who...
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THE PRISONER: Patrick McGoohan 1928-2009
THE PRISONER: PATRICK McGOOHAN The recent death of the creator of The Prisoner Patrick McGoohan was given surprisingly little publicity. One of those items towards the end of the news where the newsreader adopts an appropriately nostalgic, slightly reverential tone. Some fairly muted obituaries in the newspapers, with the standard shots of McGoohan in his...
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MOVIE: Children of Men: Contemporary Distopia
I saw a film today, oh boy…. It’s only once every few years that you walk out of a film and you are so gobsmacked that you can hardly speak. It happened to me a couple of days ago on my first viewing of Alfonso Cuaron’s Children of Men, adapted from the novel by P.D....