Stanley Baker was hardly what you’d call a typical leading man in post-war British cinema. Unlike his peers, who were almost always handsome and debonair, …

In a career which spanned over sixty years, Charlton Heston became an American icon and one of the most familiar cinematic faces. He has starred …

Samuel Fuller was never a director to shy away from controversy or take the easy road. The controversial film-maker never abided by convention and was …

It has been a long time coming but, in the West at least, mental illness is finally being treated as seriously as physical conditions. The …

Living under an oppressive regime essentially means spending your life in a constant state of anxiety and trepidation. Those citizens residing in communist countries during …

It should probably come as no surprise to anyone but when people discuss the greatest actors of the 1960s and 1970s they almost always talk …

Today, New York is a relatively clean and safe city. Indeed, it’s one of the safest major cities in the United States. This was the …

It would be a severe understatement to say that Robert Aldrich was a bit of a maverick. As well as making some extraordinary cinema the …

Some actors have a distinctive screen presence. The ability to send a chill down your spine with just a look or a few carefully chosen …

Psychological horror continues to be the scariest and most compelling sub-genre because human imaginations can conjure up all manner of terrors. People have been labelled …