Simon Thompson explores the career of the late, great David Lynch…To start this article off as simply as possible, David Lynch, one of American cinema’s greatest idiosyncratic directors is gone. While I knew that his health had sadly taken a turn for the worse since 2020, it still feels almost impossible to come to terms […]
Cinema of 1980: Blockbusters Take Over
Tom Jolliffe looks back at 1980, a key turning point in cinema…After a decade that began with an overwhelming air of pessimist cinema, the end of the 70’s would mark the beginnings of a significant turn around in box office tastes.By 1980 Steven Spielberg and George Lucas were household names. Star Wars, Jaws and Close […]
Stranger Things’ Charlie Heaton to play The Elephant Man for the BBC
Stranger Things star Charlie Heaton is set to take on the role of Joseph Merrick in The Elephant Man, a two-part drama for BBC One and producers New Pictures (The Missing, Requiem).Deadline reports that the drama biopic will “chart Merrick’s extraordinary story from his working-class beginnings in Leicestershire, through the work-houses, music halls and freak […]
