Island of Terror

It's holiday season on The Island (and Mounds & Circles).  There are other blogs, of course, but they mainly just pinch stuff fro...

If you want to see really good screen acting, just watch the last couple of minutes of ' The Long Good Friday...

'The Long Good Friday' takes two bete noirs of the seventies - gangsters and the IRA - and makes them fight, like 'Alien Vs....

'The Squeeze' has a bit of a reputation as an under-appreciated classic but, for me, although it has its moments and a great ca...

Jack Regan (l) wears a chocolate brown suede military style jacket with elephant collar and matching tie by Keith of Mayfair; white an...

Matthew Holness is a comedian and an ace pasticheur , but 'A Gun For George' has a horror at i...

'Target' is a deadly serious show, which may be why it's so very funny. A sort of Alan Partridge re-imag...

NEW SERIES! Featuring the many modes of Sweeney bastard Jack Regan. I went to a fancy dress party as Regan once, having simply raided my Da...

After four series and two films of  'The Sweeney' , Jack Regan and Carter started to resemble an old married couple, not least in th...

‘New Scotland Yard’ is a police procedural programme which ran on ITV from 1972 to 1974. It’s a programme that I...