An obscure late 60s gem has been restored ready for a cinema screening and a DVD/Blu-ray release – Deep End. It's a 'coming-of-age' comedy set (bizarrely) in a swimming baths, as well as the streets of London at the fag end of the sixties, with Mike (John Moulder-Brown) besotted with […]
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Dudley Bedazzled poster by Piper Gates
Remember a few weeks back we featured a Bedazzled poster by Piper Gates Design? That one featured one of the cult movie's stars, Peter Cook. Well, to accompany that, Piper Gates Design have done a companion piece – the Dudley Bedazzled poster. Yes, this time featuring co-star and long-time Cook […]
Joanna (1968) gets BFI / Flipside release
The second of the releases from BFI and Flipside for April is Joanna, shown last year on the big screen by Flipside and reviewed by us over at Cinedelica when it was on that big screen. 17-year-old Joanna (Genevieve Waite) is cool, stylish, and determined to start a new life […]
BFI / Flipside release Lunch Hour (1962)
Details of the new releases from the BFI offshoot Flipside have landed, with Lunch Hour being the first of the new releases for April. Based on a John Mortimer play, Lunch Hour, from 1962, stars Shirley Anne Field (Saturday Night and Sunday Morning) as a young designer on the brink […]
Quadrophenia (1979)
It’s incredibly difficult to review Quadrophenia as a movie in the modern era. Many of us have been brought up with it, been inspired by it and ultimately distanced ourselves from its movie simplistic view of what ‘Mod’ is. But try to take away any pre-conceptions you may have and […]
Bedazzled poster by Piper Gates Design
From the makers of The Prisoner poster and indeed the related postcard set comes this limited edition Bedazzled poster by Piper Gates Design. As you might have guessed, this is a tribute to the original Bedazzled, not the terrible remake. Which means it does, of course, feature one of its […]
In conversation: Brighton Rock
It's been and gone in terms of the big screen release, but the talk about Brighton Rock continues. You can read our review of it here or for a different spin on the movie, check out an interesting conversation over at Paul 'The Look' Gorman's blog. Paul met up with […]
The Jokers at the NFT reviewed
We flagged up a screening of The Flipside presents The Jokers – and if you missed it, luckily for you, the Scenester didn't – he went along to review the event. Back in 1967, Michael Winner wasn't an annoying food critic and car insurance salesman, he was producing interesting Brit […]
