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13 April 2012 12:22 PM, PDT | digitalspy | See recent digitalspy news »

Private Eye editor Ian Hislop has said that Ricky Gervais is one of his least favourite comics. Speaking to the Radio Times, the Have I Got News For You satirist singled out the Derek star as the man most likely to persuade him to switch his TV set off. Of comedy he enjoys, the 51-year-old highlighted Jack Whitehall's Channel 4 sitcom Fresh Meat, adding: "I was watching Raw Meat - er, Fresh Meat - with Jack Whitehall. "He is very funny (more) »

- By Paul Millar

2 April 2012 1:20 AM, PDT | The Guardian - Film News | See recent The Guardian - Film News news »

Drowning, rabies, electrocution: 70s public information films suggested you could die at any moment. And they were so frightening, they still haunt people today

• Peter Bradshaw on the horror of public information films

• Jude Rogers on how public information films haunt today's directors

In the mid 90s, a company secured the rights to release a selection of classic public information films on video, under the title Charley Says. I bought it not, as I suppose most people did, in a haze of nostalgia, but in the spirit of confronting a terrible fear, like those people who try to overcome their aerophobia by booking on to a course that involves a trip in a plane.

I can't remember the first time I saw The Spirit of Dark and Lonely Water, the 1973 public information film in which a Bergman-esque Death literally stalks children playing on riverbanks. That was part of the problem: »

- Alexis Petridis

22 February 2012 2:47 AM, PST | Den of Geek | See recent Den of Geek news »

From the 70s to the present, we look back through the sterling work of Rutger Hauer to bring you the actor’s 10 finest films that aren't Blade Runner...

For some, Dutch actor Rutger Hauer will forever be associated with a certain rooftop speech about tears in rain. But although his turn as doomed replicant Roy Batty in Blade Runner was a classic one, Hauer’s output before and since has been stunningly prolific. This list, therefore, is designed to highlight 10 of Hauer’s finest non-Blade Runner movies, with a particular emphasis on those that are lesser known – which is why we've gone for some older pictures rather than the more recent and mainstream, such as Batman Begins. And since this is Den of Geek, expect to find lots of action movies, horror, and low-budget sci-fi in the entries below.

One thing they all have in common, though, irrespective of »

17 February 2012 12:18 AM, PST | Blogomatic3000 | See recent Blogomatic3000 news »

Following the success of last year’s Cruel Britannia season, Horror Channel have announced another Brit-centric season, the Heritage Of Horror, which continues to showcase and celebrate British horror, past and present, at its finest – featuring two classics from the vaults and two brand new films, yet to be shown on UK television. I know I’ll be tuning in every Friday night – especially considering Horror Channel are showing one of my all-time favourite horror movies, the superb Blood on Satan’s Claw. I can also recommend 13Hrs, which I saw at FrightFest in 2010, it’s a great little (and by little I mean claustrophobic), werewolf movie. You can read my review of 13Hrs here.

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First up, on Friday March 9, is Gary Sherman’s 1973 Death Line. Set on the London Underground, this moody shocker features brilliant horror icon Donald Pleasance in the lead role as a cockney copper. »

- Phil

4 items from 2012