To celebrate the release of The Bfg, on Blu-Ray and DVD from 4th March, we are giving away Blu-Rays to 2 lucky winners!
Revisit the magic of this wonderful and inspiring tale about young orphan Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant starring David Jason (Only Fools and Horses), as the voice of
the Bfg along with a stellar cast including Angela Thorne (To the Manor Born), Frank Thornton (Are You Being Served?), Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?) and Ballard
Berkeley (Fawlty Towers). Now there’s a reason to feel hopscotchy!
The Bfg premiered on ITV on Christmas Day 1989 and was brought to life by Cosgrove Hall Films who also created Count Duckula, Chorlton and the Wheelies and Dangermouse.
Follow the adventures of lonely orphan girl Sophie as she meets her twenty-five foot high prince and is whisked off into the wonders of Dreamland. Tasked with harvesting dreams and blowing them...
Revisit the magic of this wonderful and inspiring tale about young orphan Sophie and the Big Friendly Giant starring David Jason (Only Fools and Horses), as the voice of
the Bfg along with a stellar cast including Angela Thorne (To the Manor Born), Frank Thornton (Are You Being Served?), Mollie Sugden (Are You Being Served?) and Ballard
Berkeley (Fawlty Towers). Now there’s a reason to feel hopscotchy!
The Bfg premiered on ITV on Christmas Day 1989 and was brought to life by Cosgrove Hall Films who also created Count Duckula, Chorlton and the Wheelies and Dangermouse.
Follow the adventures of lonely orphan girl Sophie as she meets her twenty-five foot high prince and is whisked off into the wonders of Dreamland. Tasked with harvesting dreams and blowing them...
- 2/26/2024
- by Competitions
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Conjuror of the bizarre Strickland outdoes himself with this tale of a sonic performance collective who stick microphones into food – and other places
British writer-director Peter Strickland, the distinctive film-maker behind such deliciously indefinable mysteries as Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy, says he hopes his latest cinematic chef-d’oeuvre “treats stomach problems responsibly while still pushing the boundaries of taste”. It’s a typically straight-faced statement from a wry artist whose habitually ritualised, fetishistic films have consistently straddled the boundary between the satirical and the serious, the playful and the profound. If Strickland’s last feature, In Fabric (2019), was an episode of Are You Being Served? as reimagined by David Lynch, then this “gastrointestinal drama” feels like an episode of The Galloping Gourmet being watched by a drunken doctor while performing a colonoscopy. It’s a bizarre exercise in culinary theatre, in which trapped wind becomes a...
British writer-director Peter Strickland, the distinctive film-maker behind such deliciously indefinable mysteries as Berberian Sound Studio and The Duke of Burgundy, says he hopes his latest cinematic chef-d’oeuvre “treats stomach problems responsibly while still pushing the boundaries of taste”. It’s a typically straight-faced statement from a wry artist whose habitually ritualised, fetishistic films have consistently straddled the boundary between the satirical and the serious, the playful and the profound. If Strickland’s last feature, In Fabric (2019), was an episode of Are You Being Served? as reimagined by David Lynch, then this “gastrointestinal drama” feels like an episode of The Galloping Gourmet being watched by a drunken doctor while performing a colonoscopy. It’s a bizarre exercise in culinary theatre, in which trapped wind becomes a...
- 10/2/2022
- by Mark Kermode, Observer film critic
- The Guardian - Film News
James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan’s love-hate romance, which spawned many later meet-cutes, is more eccentric than you might remember
Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 romcom classic is re-released: it stars James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as the two squabbling shop assistants, Alfred and Klara, who are anonymous romantic penpals falling in love without knowing who the other really is and who in real life can’t stand each other. It’s a parallel universe situation that effectively takes the dislike/love duality of the meet-cute scenario and perpetuates it through almost the entire drama.
The Shop Around the Corner is based on the Hungarian stage play Parfumerie and keeps the Mitteleuropa setting of elegant Budapest: strange to think that this film was appearing just as Hungary was joining the war, on the wrong side. It inspired many remakes, most famously the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan weepie-romance update You’ve Got Mail...
Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 romcom classic is re-released: it stars James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan as the two squabbling shop assistants, Alfred and Klara, who are anonymous romantic penpals falling in love without knowing who the other really is and who in real life can’t stand each other. It’s a parallel universe situation that effectively takes the dislike/love duality of the meet-cute scenario and perpetuates it through almost the entire drama.
The Shop Around the Corner is based on the Hungarian stage play Parfumerie and keeps the Mitteleuropa setting of elegant Budapest: strange to think that this film was appearing just as Hungary was joining the war, on the wrong side. It inspired many remakes, most famously the Tom Hanks/Meg Ryan weepie-romance update You’ve Got Mail...
- 12/2/2021
- by Peter Bradshaw
- The Guardian - Film News
British Actress Sugden Dies
Beloved British TV actress Mollie Sugden has died, aged 86.
The TV star passed away in hospital in Surrey, England on Wednesday after a long running illness, according to her agent.
Her twin sons Robin and Simon were by her bedside.
Sugden shot to fame in Brit sitcom Are You Being Served? in 1972 and appeared in a string of other television shows, including The Liver Birds and long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
David Croft, one of the Are You Being Served? writers, remembers the actress as a "marvellous character" who loved to make people laugh.
He says, "She would never refuse any sort of comedy situation, no matter how undignified it was she would always go along with it. She was marvellously funny."
Sugden is survived by her two sons and several grandchildren.
The TV star passed away in hospital in Surrey, England on Wednesday after a long running illness, according to her agent.
Her twin sons Robin and Simon were by her bedside.
Sugden shot to fame in Brit sitcom Are You Being Served? in 1972 and appeared in a string of other television shows, including The Liver Birds and long-running soap opera Coronation Street.
David Croft, one of the Are You Being Served? writers, remembers the actress as a "marvellous character" who loved to make people laugh.
He says, "She would never refuse any sort of comedy situation, no matter how undignified it was she would always go along with it. She was marvellously funny."
Sugden is survived by her two sons and several grandchildren.
- 7/1/2009
- WENN
Eastenders Star Richard Dies
British soap star and Eastenders actress Wendy Richard has lost her battle with cancer. She was 65.
Richard, best known for her long-running role as Pauline Fowler in the hit BBC show, passed away at a Harley Street Clinic in London on Thursday morning, according to her publicist.
She was diagnosed with a terminal form of the disease last October, after previously enduring two cancer battles - one in the early 1990s and again in 2002.
However, the cancer spread to her bones and doctors predicted she had just months to live.
The star married her long-term partner John Burns, her fourth husband, soon after the diagnosis at London's Mayfair Hotel.
Richard shot to fame in the U.K. starring as Miss Brahms in hit 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served?.
She joined the cast of Eastenders when the show debuted on BBC1 in 1985, playing the role of matriarch Pauline Fowler for 22 years until her departure in 2006.
The following year, Richard was presented with a British Soap Award for Lifetime Achievement for her role in the show.
In an official statement, Richard's representative says, "She was incredibly brave and retained her sense of humour right to the end."
In a candid interview last year, Richard revealed she had made plans for her funeral after she was diagnosed with the deadly illness.
Richard, best known for her long-running role as Pauline Fowler in the hit BBC show, passed away at a Harley Street Clinic in London on Thursday morning, according to her publicist.
She was diagnosed with a terminal form of the disease last October, after previously enduring two cancer battles - one in the early 1990s and again in 2002.
However, the cancer spread to her bones and doctors predicted she had just months to live.
The star married her long-term partner John Burns, her fourth husband, soon after the diagnosis at London's Mayfair Hotel.
Richard shot to fame in the U.K. starring as Miss Brahms in hit 1970s sitcom Are You Being Served?.
She joined the cast of Eastenders when the show debuted on BBC1 in 1985, playing the role of matriarch Pauline Fowler for 22 years until her departure in 2006.
The following year, Richard was presented with a British Soap Award for Lifetime Achievement for her role in the show.
In an official statement, Richard's representative says, "She was incredibly brave and retained her sense of humour right to the end."
In a candid interview last year, Richard revealed she had made plans for her funeral after she was diagnosed with the deadly illness.
- 2/26/2009
- WENN
TV Star Richard 'Dying Of Cancer'
Beloved British TV actress Wendy Richard has revealed she has been diagnosed with terminal cancer - but will marry for a fourth time before she dies.
The Are You Being Served? star - famed for playing Pauline Fowler in hit U.K. soap opera Eastenders for more than two decades - has beaten breast cancer twice before, but the disease has now attacked her kidney and spread to her bones.
In an exclusive interview with British newspaper the Sunday Express, she says "It has come as a terrible shock and you just get so fed up. You think, 'Oh, crikey, here we go again', but you just have to buck your ideas up and get on with these things."
Richard, 65, says her dying wish is to wed her long-term partner John Burns, 45.
The couple plan to exchange vows on Friday before starting chemotherapy next week.
She says, "We were going to get married anyway but when we got the diagnosis we decided to push ahead and get married now. There was no rush before.
"I've looked at it from both sides of the coin. If I get better, which hopefully I will, all well and good, but, worse case scenario and I do pass away, John is secure because I have made my will and drawn up what arrangements I would like for my funeral and what music I would like played, so I've tried to think of everything."
Richard has also appeared in two Carry On films, playing a cameo role in Carry On Matron and a supporting part in Carry On Girls.
The Are You Being Served? star - famed for playing Pauline Fowler in hit U.K. soap opera Eastenders for more than two decades - has beaten breast cancer twice before, but the disease has now attacked her kidney and spread to her bones.
In an exclusive interview with British newspaper the Sunday Express, she says "It has come as a terrible shock and you just get so fed up. You think, 'Oh, crikey, here we go again', but you just have to buck your ideas up and get on with these things."
Richard, 65, says her dying wish is to wed her long-term partner John Burns, 45.
The couple plan to exchange vows on Friday before starting chemotherapy next week.
She says, "We were going to get married anyway but when we got the diagnosis we decided to push ahead and get married now. There was no rush before.
"I've looked at it from both sides of the coin. If I get better, which hopefully I will, all well and good, but, worse case scenario and I do pass away, John is secure because I have made my will and drawn up what arrangements I would like for my funeral and what music I would like played, so I've tried to think of everything."
Richard has also appeared in two Carry On films, playing a cameo role in Carry On Matron and a supporting part in Carry On Girls.
- 10/7/2008
- WENN
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