rushmore24

Like you, I love the cinema, I've seen lots of films and yet I've hardly scratched the surface.

So, this is only reason I watch this show as I can catch clips (however short) of films I have not seen.

Each program is only 45m (when you take out the ads) and yet time is wasted on repetition (film name, stars etc.) not to mention errors in the narration e.g. Preston Foster and not Preston Sturges.

It seems these four 'celebrated' cinema critics have merely scanned your IMDB bios/reviews in order to appear like the one-eyed amongst the blind? The idea is just too lazy and we might have got more depth had each Director only been covered by one reviewer.

This must have been the easiest money each of them has ever earned?

Having just seen Elwyn Brook-Jones in 'Odd Man Out' it took my mind back to Gary Halliday, the first UK TV series to make a real impression on my young mind. I've never seen any repeats or articles on the series but the fact that it had an aviation basis and the mysterious 'Voice' was enough to hook me. Perhaps it's best that it remains a vivid, if slightly scary, memory as its production values may not stand up today? Of course Terence Alexander went on to be a television staple whereas Terence Longden and Elwyn Brook-Jones became rarer commodities. Anyway it remains stronger in my memory than all its contemporaries like Ivanhoe, Robin Hood and William Tell.

Definitely a 'tour de force' for Al Pacino, but with very effective cameos from Kim and Tia. A rather implausible thriller in that these men of power should have found the camera easily, but as a drama of a defeated liberal trying to make one last attempt to climb out of the swamp it is much more effective. Load up on your caffeine as you'll need to fight off Eli's tiredness as he stumbles through the New York night.