Month: November 2024

Roman Holiday

If you’ve ever dreamed of zipping around Rome on a Vespa (hello, Emily In Paris), you are probably consciously following in the tracks of Audrey Heburn and Gregory Peck in Roman Holiday. That’s probably the most famous scene in this classic 1953 love story, as a spoiled princess escapes to explore the city incognito with…


Get Carter

Get Carter is one of the most iconic of all British crime movies, and one of Michael Caine’s most famous roles. Its unremittingly gritty, as London gangster Carter travels North to right various wrongs and encounters a range of shady characters from his past, few of whom end up alive at the end of the…


The Manchurian Candidate

The 1962 original version of The Manchurian Candidate is one of my all-time favourite movies. (The less said about the 2004 remake the better). Star Frank Sinatra has never been better and Laurence Harvey is incredible as his poor doomed military colleague, brainwashed to be a political assassin. The movie has many great scenes, none…