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Richard Attenborough
Blu-Ray Review: Flight of the Phoenix
Disaster movies are big box office these days. Every summer you’ll see a smattering in your local multiplex. The current vogue is for natural disasters. Big budget Studio films such as The Day After Tomorrow, Twister, Armageddon, The Core and Deep Impact may boast incredible visuals but there’s often less care and attention taken over …
DVD Review: The Angry Silence
The late 1950s and 1960s were a strong period for British cinema. This was driven by a new breed of film, sparked by John Osborne’s play Look Back in Anger, which loosely fall under the heading kitchen sink realism. Whilst Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey and Tony Richardson’s adaptation of Osborne’s …