Island of Terror

INNOVATIONS IN ENTERTAINMENT

'Bing bing bong, this is Radio Butlin '. Yes, it really happened. We used to go on holiday to Butlins in the seventies, an d alw...

'Look, Mary, no hands!' There's no question in my mind that  Cliff Richard  has made a lot of good records, but very few o...

As you might expect from a film that is about the death of a child and the devastating impact it has on a family, '...

Driving used to have criteria, things that you had to do before embarking on a journey. There were special clothes to ...

As a child I had a morbid fear of quicksand. I'd probably watched too many Tarzan films*, and PIF's like 'Ke...

It's a convention of vampire films that Dracula starts dead, and ends up dead. In Hammer productions he is usually e...

Dolphins at Brighton Aquarium,  Sussex I know what you're thinking, 'yeah, dolphins are cool, Paul, but they're not that i...

The writer, theorist and academic  Mark Fisher recently set up a Facebook page called ‘Boring Dystopia’ , and invited the submission of...

It’s  1970 , and Cliff Richard faces up to the challenges of a new decade and a less than inspiring recent sales record by teaming ...

FMIF as Philip Proudfoot in 'Otley' (1968). We've actually done this film before, but it is well worth revisiting,...

'Otley' is about fifteen minutes too long, but it's a fun film about the rather shabby world of espionage t...

The purring, sinister, wonderfully eccentric Aubrey Morris is dead. He lived for 89 years, and was acting up until a few months ago. He...

It's February 1979, and Punk is moribund enough for Legs & Co to get involved and start clod hopping about in plastic sandals ...

Art therapy is an essential part of prison for those serving long sentences: they've got to do something, after all, and smearing a...

While we're thinking about shotguns, rural settings and sudden, violent death, remember -- 'A gun should be...