I'm not sure of your point but the Black and White Minstrels was in the style of American vaudeville 'coon' shows or minstrel shows
"Far less well represented in this collection than vaudeville, the minstrel show was the most popular form of public amusement in the United States from the 1840s...
This Week, ‘The Very British Terrorists’, ITV, 30 April 1992.
Reporter Margaret Gilmore and producer Ed Braman take a pre-ceasefire look at Loyalist paramilitaries, or more specifically the UDA - which at this point was still legal - and its covername the Ulster Freedom Fighters.
Starts...
Panorama, ‘The SAS’, BBC One, 1988.
Reporter Tom Mangold looks at the involvement of the SAS in Northern Ireland, in the wake of the inquest into the deaths of three PIRA Volunteers shot dead by the British special forces unit in Gibraltar. “There have been SAS arrests in Northern...
aye, i dont think they would even claim to be telling an authorative account of what happened - its very much an approximation, though unlike some Based On films they havent ramped it up with a load of impossible cheap thrills.
Ultimately its quite a dark film by Hollywood standards...leaves a...
Neruda
Neruda (2016) - IMDb
Saw this with my Spanish partner.
A few asides. My Spanish partner when she heard about this film said we had to see it. For someone from her background. A grandfather imprisoned by Franco. A family background which is still socialist. Like South America where...
Panorama, ‘Gangsters At War’, BBC One, 22 June 2003.
Reporter Kevin Magee looks into the shitstorm that was the C Company feud and diaspora. There's a quick look at Bolton, where La Famille Adair decamped to after being invited to leave Belfast by former chums, attracting in their wake...
Darin Morgan wrote Clyde Bruckman's Final Repose with Peter Boyle which I think is one of the best hours of genre TV ever and the and the almost as good and totally batshit Jose Chung's From Outer Space.
When I was 8, I went to see 'The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold' with my brother.
It was preceded by a b movie sci-fi horror called 'The Flame Barrier' (The Flame Barrier (1958) - IMDb). It was about a sputnik-type thing falling back from space into a jungle. But it had been infected...
Stoker (2013) - Chan Wook Park (who directed the Korean Vengeance trilogy so stylishly) goes to a weirdly disembodied Middle America for a gleefully nasty tale of roiling insanity, jealousy, lust, family secrets and, um, vengeance. It's very weird, deliberately so, and the flamboyance or...
They are going by IMDb listings, which most Enlish language publications use as the standard reference for titles. Caché was released under its original title in most countries apart from the UK and Ireland. In the Mood for Love was released as a translated title everywhere. And yes, of course...
In the UK at least, Dredd was released pretty much solely as a 3D-only movie and if there were any 2D runs of it at the cinemas I didn't spot them before they vanished. Put off a lot of people besides me. According to IMDB, Dredd made half of what the execrable Judge Dredd did 20 years ago in...
Dispatches, ‘The Committee’, 1991.
A curious one, this. A film by Sean McPhilemy which ultimately appears to have destroyed his career (certainly judging by his IMDb profile).
The gist is, collusion between the British state, Loyalist paramilitaries and Unionist politicans was formally...
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