Friday, 3 November 2023

The Merchant of Venice (1972)

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This TV production, a BBC Play of the Month , is a pretty complete version of the play, retaining all of the many interwoven sub-plots invol...
Friday, 27 October 2023

Julius Caesar (1953)

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In this Hollywood film of the play, James Mason stars as Brutus, but this version is most certainly best known for the actor who steals the ...
Saturday, 21 October 2023

Richard III (1955)

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This is the Laurence Olivier version, which is still easily the most famous single version of the play even for those who have never watched...
Monday, 2 October 2023

The Strange Case of the End of Civilisation as We Know It

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This essentially forgotten TV programme is a quite extraordinarily bad one-off ITV comedy from 1977, written by and starring John Cleese. In...
Monday, 28 August 2023

Big Gay Longcat and Expensive Luxury Cat review James Bond: Diamonds Are Forever

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Sean Connery obviously loved playing James Bond. Why else would he have come back to the role after leaving it behind forever not once, but ...
Thursday, 17 August 2023

Big Gay Longcat reviews Blakes 7: Games

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Games is the eighth episode of the fourth season of Blakes 7. It was written by Bill Lyons, a writer who more usually wrote for soap operas...
Tuesday, 15 August 2023

And now for something completely the same...

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And Now for Something Completely Different (1971) The first Monty Python film was made inbetween the second and third seasons of the Monty P...