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Couch Potato Pickings – Sleepy Hollow
On Film4 tonight at 9pm October is just round the corner and this movie has got me thinking about that inevitable Halloween costume. This headless horseman might be fun, but a bit restrictive for...
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Pete’s Peek | Oliver Reed is in high spirits in vintage Hammer horror Paranoiac!
Legendary hellraiser Oliver Reed may be better remembered for his drinking antics than his acting credits, but having just seen the latest Eureka! Classics release, I think a reappraisal of the...
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Couch Potato’s Tuesday Trivia: Resurrecting Reed for Gladiator
Right in the midst of shooting principal photography for Roman epic Gladiator in Malta in 1999, British actor Oliver Reed suffered a fatal heart attack. Because some of the scenes featuring Reed‘s...
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Ghoulish gallery of Halloween chests revealed
[View with PicLens] Did you have nightmares trying to identify all the chilling movie characters from my Halloween-themed Name that Chest gallery last week? Well, now that you know who they are, you...
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Name That Chest: There should be no uncertainty about this one
But, just in case you are still unsure, I’ll just say you’ve had two clues already. And, if you’re still hesitating, well, here’s your fourth clue: the actor has a film out this week, which he also...
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Pete’s Peek | Two vintage swashbucklers from the classic Hammer studios get...
In director John Gilling 1965′s adventure The Brigand of Kandahar, it’s 1850 and the British Army are holed up in a fort in remote north-east India (actually Bray studios in Berkshire) protecting the...
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Pete’s Peek | Ken Russell’s film of The Devils rises again in a 40th...
Probably the most talked about DVD release of 2012 must be Ken Russell’s Film of The Devils, which is finally becoming available in the UK some 40-years after it first caused shock, outrage and a...
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Blu-ray review | Royal Flash (1975) | Richard Lester’s slapstick period drama...
THE STORY After humiliating Otto von Bismark (Oliver Reed) in a boxing match and stealing his mistress, courtesan Lola Montez (Florinda Bolkan), decorated 19th-century soldier and famed scoundrel...
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Blu-ray review | The Brood (1979) | David Cronenberg’s unnerving experience...
THE STORY Dr Hal Raglan (Oliver Reed) is a respected Toronto psychotherapist whose latest book, The Shape of Rage, outlines his radical therapy in which patients externalise their traumas in the form...
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Win David Cronenberg’s chilling horror classic The Brood on Blu-ray
The Brood, one of David Cronenberg’s most frightening works finally gets its long-awaited UK Blu-ray debut thanks to Second Sight Films. This 1979 chiller stars Oliver Reed (The Devils) as Dr Hal...
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