The North East Magazine
‘The Stones in the Park’ title of this DVD refers to the Rolling Stones’s free concert in Hyde Park in July 1969. After various controversies surrounding their recent 50 year reunion show last November at the O2 Arena this DVD is a welcome watch as to how they used to be. Filmed just two days [...]
This Network release of The Overseas Press Club is both an interesting gift from and about the past…it is vintage TV at its best. In 1957 the newly created ITV broadcast a series of thirteen twenty five minute docu-drama’s that told in it’s then pioneering style, bizarre and dramatic events and characters reported on by [...]
The Human Jungle stars Herbert Lom, who played Dreyfus, the chief of police who was in charge of Inspector Clouseau in “The Pink Panther “films. Sadly he recently passed away, and it was a surprise to discover that there were many many strings to that fine actors bow with a fifty year career in movies [...]
This collection comprising two free standing films from the Granada Television Series “Haunted” that was broadcast over the Christmas period in 1974 stars Jeremy Brett in ‘The Ferryman’, and Lynn Miller in ‘Poor Girl’. The Ferryman is taken from a short story by Kingsley Amis. A recently successful and somewhat pompous writer escapes with his [...]
2 Days in New York starring Chris Rock and Julie Delpy (also written by her) is is the follow up sequel to 2007 Delpy’s international hit ’2 Days In Paris’. It is a free standing movie in it’s own right with the joke being directed at French culture and sensibility’s expense this time. I’m not [...]
After all the celebrations of the last few weeks Network Distribution present us with a brilliant look back in time. We view history in black and white but live through it in colour and never more so than events we ourselves have been alive to witness or have been told about by our parents. This [...]
Humans have always told stories. It is how we have recorded our development as a species. It is how we know who and what we are, and where we might be going? Word of mouth stories eventually got written down. In 1890 the miracle discovery of photography led to the development of moving those pictures [...]
Comedy finds favour in opposites accommodating one another and misunderstandings harvesting conflict and absurdities. No more so can it be seen than in the latest release from the Network DVD emporium which stars Julia McKenzie, Irene Handl, and Anton Rodgers. Take Julia Mc kenzie a recently divorced teacher starting a new life and alighting upon [...]