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With the new BBC series Sherlock imminent and the revelation of the new Doctor Who, it seems appropriate that these two icons of British popular culture are presented in the latest Roundup. Sherlock and his...
2011. DVD (Region 2 PAL). Icon Home Entertainment. Running time: 88 minutes (+ 25 minutes extras). RRP: £15.99. Available from retail outlets. Official website: www.thebeaver-movie.co.uk/ About the...
A Licence to be Different: The Story of Channel 4 by Maggie Brown (BFI Publishing, October 2007), 368 pages, ISBN: 9781844572052 (paperback), £16.99; ISBN: 978-1844572045 (hardback), £50.00 Channel 4: The...
Frank Borzage volumes 1 & 2. 2009. GB. DVD (Region 2 PAL), BFI. Volume One - 7th Heaven / Street Angel (114 mins + 97 mins); Volume Two – Lucky Star / Liliom (95 mins + 90 mins) About the reviewer: Dr...
For the week ending 30 November 2012, the most requested titles from the BUFVC Off-Air Back-Up Service include coverage of such topics as world famine, photography, the modern Spanish economy and the...
2010. DVD. Alba Home Video. 520 minutes. £29.99 About the author: Dr Nick Baron is Associate Professor, Faculty of Arts University of Nottingham and author of The King of Karelia: Col. P.J. Woods and the...
The Screening Socialism project is the first comparative, transnational study of television cultures in socialist Eastern Europe. Dr Sabina Mihelj, Reader in Media and Cultural Analysis, Loughborough...
Halliwell’s Horizon: Leslie Halliwell and His Film Guides, by Michael Binder (Lulu Press, July 2011), 302 pages. ISBN: 978-1447742050 (hardback) £18.99; ISBN: 978-1447748212 (paperback) £8.99; Kindle...
Film historian James Leahy provides a personal view of three of the films made by the educator and film director Thorold Dickinson which are now available on DVD. About the author: James Leahy is a...
Commissioned by the BBC in 1966, Chronicle was a groundbreaking archaeological series that would be on the air for the next twenty-five years. Don Henson, University of York, looks at the history and...