New Releases: A Dozen Summers
Between the early 1950s and 1980s, a film company called The Children’s Film Foundation captured what being a child was…
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Screengems: The Staircase from The Adventures of Robin Hood (Michael Curtiz & William Keighley, 1938)
During the late 1930’s, no period Hollywood adventure was complete without Errol Flynn or Basil Rathbone. These two men epitomised…
Screengems: The Candlestick Cross from Dracula (Terence Fisher, 1958)
Hammer Films’ second foray into the world of gothic horror, Dracula, changed the fortunes of both the studio and the…
Screengems: The shower from Psycho (Alfred Hitchcock, 1960)
Picture this: it’s been a long day and you’ve been driving since early morning. Suddenly, just off the highway, you…
Screengems: Chitty from Chitty Bang Bang (Ken Hughes, 1968)
Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (or Chitty as she was affectionately referred to) was quite simply the most ‘fantasmagorical’ vehicle ever…
Screengems: The Lament Configuration Box from Hellraiser (Clive Barker, 1987)
Like Pandora’s Box, the Lament Configuration Box had the power to unleash Hell on Earth. Unlike that particular casket of…
Screengems: ‘The Book’ in The Devil Wears Prada (David Frankel, 2006)
Forget put-upon, would-be journalist, Andy Sachs (infused with subtle innocence by Anne Hathaway), bitchy PA Emily Charlton (the wonderfully acidic Emily Blunt) or…
The television set in Poltergeist (Tobe Hooper, 1982)
Malignant horror can most effectively be found through forums which are accessible to all, no matter who or where you are. So…
The parrot headed umbrella in Mary Poppins (Robert Stevenson, 1964)
Mary Poppins, the mysterious nanny who blew in on an easterly wind changing forever the lives of the assorted inhabitants…
