Best halwalk91 Podcasts (2025)

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Scrooge (1951) 50:52

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For Hal's Christmas selection this year, he has chosen his favourite and "definitive" screen adaptation of Charles Dickens' festive novel of Scrooge ("A Christmas Carol") with Alastair Sim delivering an unforgettable performance as Ebenezer Scrooge, a spiteful and miserly man, who encounters three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him the folly of …

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The Holiday (2006) 1:06:56

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Our first Christmas selection for the podcast this year is one of Izzy's all-time favourite films, The Holiday, the romantic comedy starring Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as Amanda and Iris, two lovelorn women from opposite sides of the Atlantic Ocean, who arrange a home exchange to escape heartbreak during the Christmas and holiday season. Directo…

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Carnage (2011) 54:18

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Hal's next choice is the 2011 black comedy film directed by Roman Polanski, based on the Tony Award-winning 2006 play by Yasmina Reza. Two pairs of parents hold a cordial meeting after their sons are involved in a fight, though as their time together progresses, increasingly childish behaviour throws the discussion into chaos. Starring: Jodie Foste…

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Autumn Sonata (1978) 57:33

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Izzy's latest selection is a highly-rated Swedish drama that marks not only our first film directed by the renowned filmmaker Ingmar Bergman but the final acting role for the exquisite Ingrid Bergman.The tale of Autumn Sonata depicts a world-renowned pianist (Ingrid Bergman) who visits her estranged daughter, Eva (Liv Ullmann), for the first time i…

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The Thing (1982) 1:06:21

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For our final movie in the month of "Spook-tober", we were lucky enough to watch the iconic horror movie "The Thing" at the local cinema, on Halloween night. The film tells the story of a group of American researchers in Antarctica who encounter the eponymous "Thing" an extraterrestrial life-form that assimilates, then imitates, other organisms. Th…

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Whatever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) 1:09:27

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Hal has chosen one of the all-time iconic gothic horror movies starring two of the most important female acting stars from Hollywood history. A former vaudeville child star (Bette Davis) torments her paraplegic sister (Joan Crawford), who eclipsed her as a movie star, in their decaying Hollywood mansion while desperately clinging to hopes of a come…

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The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) 54:48

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Izzy has selected the wonderful cult musical horror classic The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1975) this week, for our first official selection of "Spooktober" this year. The story centres on a young engaged couple (Barry Bostwick & Susan Sarandon) whose car breaks down in the rain near a castle, where they search for help. The castle is occupied by s…

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) 1:01:26

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Hal returns us to the next film in the Hitchcock marathon with the 1956 version, and remake of his own 1934 movie, The Man Who Knew Too Much.A couple (James Stewart & Doris Day) vacationing in Morocco with their young son accidentally stumble upon an assassination plot. When the child is kidnapped to ensure their silence, they have to take matters …

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Pride & Prejudice (2005) 1:04:12

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This week Izzy has chosen one of her all-time favourite period romances Pride & Prejudice starring Keira Knightley, Matthew Macfadyen, Brenda Blethyn and Donald Sutherland. When Elizabeth Bennet (Keira Knightley) meets the handsome Mr. Darcy (Matthew Macfadyen), she believes he is the last man she could ever marry, but as their lives become intertw…

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American Pie (1999) 40:52

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Hal has selected a real coming-of-age sex comedy with the first instalment of the popular American Pie franchise from his early teen years. The story follows a group of high school classmates who make a pact to lose their virginity before they graduate. Starring Jason Biggs, Chris Klein, Mena Suvari, Eugene Levy and Jennifer Coolidge.Director: Paul…

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Barry Lyndon (1975) 1:11:58

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Izzy's latest selection is the highly acclaimed Stanley Kubrick historical epic Barry Lyndon (1975) that recounts the early exploits and later unravelling of an 18th-century Irish rogue and gold-digger (Ryan O'Neal) who marries a rich widow in order to attempt to climb the social ladder and assume her late husband's aristocratic position. Director:…

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Rear Window (1954) 1:24:56

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For our latest podcast, we are delighted to be joined by a true podcast inspiration with Scott, host of numerous incredible shows such as Reel Britannia, Stinking Pause, Rainbow Valley and the official Talking Pictures TV Channel. Scott joins us today for a deep-dive into Hal's latest film selection in the Hitchcock marathon, none other than Rear W…

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Challengers (2024) 47:34

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Izzy's latest choice for the podcast is last year's popular romantic sports drama film Challengers, which follows the love triangle between an injured tennis-star-turned coach Tashi (Zendaya), her low-circuit tennis player ex-boyfriend (Josh O'Connor), and her tennis champion husband (Mike Faist) across 13 years of their relationship, culminating i…

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Foyle's War: Among the Few (2003) 58:17

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Hal has selected the first of one his many favourite tv shows to cover for the podcast with Foyle's War. A British detective drama set in Hastings, England, during and after the Second World War. Created by Anthony Horowitz, it follows the quietly determined Detective Chief Superintendent Christopher Foyle (Michael Kitchen) as he investigates crime…

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Imitation of Life (1959) 1:09:52

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Izzy has selected a really groundbreaking 1950's drama in what was the last ever work directed by the great Douglas Sirk with Imitation of Life. The film tells the story of Lora Meredith (Lana Turner), a white single mother who dreams of being on Broadway, has a chance encounter with Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore), a black widow. Annie becomes the c…

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Charade (1963) 55:17

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Hal has chosen another of his favourite with the iconic romantic suspense thriller Charade (1963) where we witness intrigue that ensues in Paris as a woman (Audrey Hepburn) is pursued by several men who want to get their hands on a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. She soon loses trust in those who claim they want to help her. Also features …

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The Lives of Others (2006) 1:00:49

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Izzy's choice this week is a highly-respected German BAFTA and Academy Award winning movie called The Lives of Others (2006), set in East Berlin in 1984, an agent (Ulrich Muhe) of the secret police conducting surveillance on a writer and his lover finds himself becoming increasingly absorbed by their lives.Director: Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck…

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Dial M for Murder (1954) 1:01:37

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Hal has returned this week with one of his all-time favourite Hitchcock movies, Dial M for Murder, the incredible one-room mystery thriller starring Ray Milland as Tony Wendice, who plans to murder his wife (Grace Kelly) when he finds out that she had an affair with someone a year ago. He blackmails an old college associate (Anthony Dawson) to exec…

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Aftersun (2022) 54:49

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Izzy has selected yet another emotionally heavy movie for this week's episode with the 2022 coming-of-age drama Aftersun. Sophie (played by Frankie Corio) reflects on the shared joy and private melancholy of a holiday she took with her father (Paul Mescal) twenty years earlier. Memories real and imagined fill the gaps between miniDV footage as she …

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Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky (2005) 1:04:19

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This week Hal has selected the BBC three-part period drama Twenty Thousand Streets Under the Sky, a story of unrequited love set in the 1930's, against the backdrop of grimy streets and public houses. Revolving around The Midnight Bell, a public house off the Euston Road, it follows the painful pursuit of love from three different perspectives. Bar…

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The Bridges of Madison County (1995) 54:58

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Izzy has gone big on the romance scale with her selection this week and has chosen The Bridges of Madison County, a moving love story about a photographer (Clint Eastwood) on assignment to shoot the historic bridges of Madison County. He meets a housewife (Meryl Streep), whose husband and children are away on a trip, and the film traces a brief aff…

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Witness for the Prosecution (1957) 59:56

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Hal has selected the classic legal mystery drama Witness for the Prosecution this week, directed by one of our favourites in Billy Wilder. The plot centres around an ailing famous barrister (Charles Laughton) who agrees to defend a man (Tyrone Power) in a sensational murder trial where his self-possessed wife’s unconvincing testimony confuses him. …

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Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) 51:39

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Izzy has really stepped up her podcast selection game this week by choosing Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981). Indy (Harrison Ford) and his feisty ex-flame Marion Ravenwood (Karen Allen) dodge booby-traps, fight enemies and stare down snakes in their incredible worldwide quest for the mystical Ark of the Covenant. Experience one exciting cliff-hanger …

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Strangers on a Train (1951) 1:03:51

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We are back with another cracker in the Alfred Hitchcock marathon and this week Hal has selected Strangers on a Train (1951), the film adaptation of Patricia Highsmith's novel. Tennis player Guy Haines (Farley Granger) is enraged by his wife's refusal to finalise their divorce so he can wed senator's daughter Anne (Ruth Roman). He strikes up a conv…

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Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019) 45:22

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Izzy has gone all Arthouse this week and selected the highly acclaimed French historical romance ‘Portrait of a Lady on Fire’. On an isolated island in Brittany at the end of the eighteenth century, a female painter is obliged to paint a wedding portrait of a young woman. Director: Celine SciammaBy halwalk91

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Days of Wine and Roses (1962) 58:12

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Hal has come back with another of his heavy-hitters this week by selecting the powerful romantic drama starring Jack Lemmon and Lee Remick, depicting the downward spiral of two average Americans who succumb to alcoholism and their repeated attempts to deal with their problems. Director: Blake Edwards…

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Annie (1999) 42:30

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Izzy has practically transported us in a time-machine to her childhood by selecting the 1999 made-for-television adaptation of the popular Broadway musical Annie, the young girl (Alicia Morton) living a “hard-knock life” in an orphanage. Fed up with the dastardly Miss Hannigan (Kathy Bates), Annie escapes the run-down orphanage determined to find h…

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The Master (2012) 1:02:42

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For a special one-off episode, we have taken a trip to the cinema to see yet another Paul Thomas Anderson highly-acclaimed film The Master (2012), telling the story of Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix), a WWII Navy Veteran struggling to adjust to a post-war society, who meets Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the leader of a cult known as The …

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Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939) 55:12

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Hal has returned to his love for Frank Capra this week and has chosen one of the most important political dramas from Hollywood history with Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939), about a naive, newly appointed and idealistic United States senator (James Stewart) who fights against government corruption. Director: Frank Capra…

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Legally Blonde (2001) 56:11

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Izzy has picked out one of her childhood and early teen Rom Com favourites in Legally Blonde, the story of fashionable sorority queen Elle Woods (Reese Witherspoon) who follows her ex-boyfriend to law school, where she discovers that there is more to her than just looks.Will Hal be just as enamoured and as unrestrained in his praise for this early …

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Midsomer Murders: Tainted Fruit (2001) 36:21

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Hal is returning to one of his old favourite murder mystery shows set in the rural murderous world of Midsomer with the 2001 episode of Tainted Fruit with another case for Detective Chief Inspector Barnaby (John Nettles) and Sergeant Troy (Daniel Casey). Melissa Townsend (Lucy Punch), the daughter of the manor, has been accused of causing the death…

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Amadeus (1984) 1:01:41

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Izzy has selected the 1984 Best Picture Academy Award Winner Amadeus as her selection this week, the depiction of the life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart (Tom Hulce), as told by Antonio Salieri (F. Murray Abraham), the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.Director: Mil…

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Stage Fright (1950) 57:21

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Hal is back with the next in the series of his favourite Hitchcock films starring Jane Wyman & Marlene Dietrich. Jonathan Cooper (Richard Todd) is wanted by the police who suspect him of killing his lover's husband. His friend Eve Gill (Jane Wyman) offers to hide him and Jonathan explains to her that his lover, actress Charlotte Inwood (Marlene Die…

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Phantom Thread (2017) 1:01:32

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Izzy's next choice is yet another Paul Thomas Anderson film with Phantom Thread (2017), a extraordinary portrait of renowned dressmaker Reynolds Woodcock (Daniel Day-Lewis) and his sister Cyril (Lesley Manville) are at the center of British fashion in 1950s London -- dressing royalty, movie stars, heiresses, socialites and debutantes. Women come an…

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Some Like It Hot (1959) 48:30

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Hal has chosen an iconic Hollywood Classic comedy film Some Like it Hot about two musicians (Tony Curtis and Jack Lemmon) during the prohibition era who disguise themselves as women to escape Chicago mobsters they witnessed commit murder. Director: Billy Wilder"And where did you get that phoney accent? Nobody talks loike that!"…

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There Will Be Blood (2007) 56:06

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Izzy has gone big for her next choice with Paul Thomas Anderson's 2007 epic period drama starring Daniel Day Lewis as Daniel Plainview, a silver miner turned oilman as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Director: Paul Thomas Anderson…

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Too Many Crooks (1959) 33:06

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Hal has selected another of his British comedy favourites from the 1950's with Too Many Crooks, a highly amusing spoof on crime films, portraying four would-be criminals who manage to botch every job they plan. When they try to rob wealthy Billy Gordon (Terry-Thomas) they fail again. But the gang decides to kidnap his daughter. What can go wrong?Di…

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Nosferatu (2024) 52:27

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For Izzy's choice this week, she's selected the brand-new release of the Gothic Horror remake Nosferatu, a story we are very familiar with having recently watched the silent 1920's Classic in the cinema and recorded for our Halloween episode. The film stars Bill Skarsgard as the vampire Nosferatu and Nicholas Hoult and Lily-Rose Depp as the married…

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Boogie Nights (1997) 1:09:02

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Hal has selected an absolute corker for this week's episode by choosing Boogie Nights (1997) a crazy Hollywood drama set in 1970's San Fernando Valley and focus on a young nightclub dishwasher (Mark Wahlberg) who becomes a popular star of pornographic films, chronicling his rise in the Golden Age of Porn in the latter part of the decade into the wi…

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Little Women (2019) 54:53

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Izzy is kicking off the New Year of 2025 with one of her favourites from recent years that is the latest adaptation of Little Women, the classic story set in the years after the Civil War:Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance enco…

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The Green Man (1956) 42:52

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For the final podcast of the year, Hal has selected one of his British comedy favourites of the 1950's The Green Man, starring Alastair Sim playing a professional contract killer who, with his assistant, plan the murder of a prominent businessman (Raymond Huntley). The murder is scheduled to take place during the businessman's stay at a seaside hot…

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It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 1:02:50

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Izzy has selected one of Hal's all-time favourite films in the festive classic It's a Wonderful Life where an angel (Henry Travers) is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman (James Stewart) by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. Director: Frank Capra…

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Home Alone 3 (1997) 45:26

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Hal has gone very left-field for his first festive film choice as he has selected the much-maligned Home Alone 3, and why it is a sequel that should carry a far superior reputation than it does. In the third installment in the film franchise, with an all-new cast of actors, Alex Pruitt, an 8-year-old boy living in Chicago, must fend off four intern…

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The Holdovers (2023) 52:43

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It's the beginning of our festive film season and for Izzy's first Christmas choice she has gone for award-winning The Holdovers (2023), a 70's tale of a curmudgeonly instructor (Paul Giamatti) at a New England prep school remains on campus during Christmas break to babysit a handful of students with nowhere to go. He soon forms an unlikely bond wi…

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Rope (1948) 58:56

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Hal has returned to his Hitchcock marathon for his next selection by choosing Rope (1948), the classic psychological crime thriller portraying two men who try to convince themselves they've committed the perfect murder by hosting a dinner party after strangling a former classmate to death.Director: Alfred Hitchcock…

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Saving Private Ryan (1998) 1:01:32

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Izzy has gone big this week and selected a true war epic in Steven Spielberg's Saving Private Ryan (1998), portraying a squad of U.S. Army soldiers on a perilous assignment behind enemy lines. The mission: to risk their lives to save the life of one man, paratrooper James Ryan. Ryan is the last survivor of a family of four brothers, the rest of who…

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Duel (1971) 39:42

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Hal has selected Steven Spielberg's feature film debut this week Duel (1971), a road-action thriller centred on a travelling salesman David Mann (played by Dennis Weaver) driving his car through rural California to meet a client. However, he finds himself chased and terrorized by the mostly unseen driver of a pursuing truck.…

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Nosferatu (1922) 42:41

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For a special cinema interactive viewing, we took a trip to the Prince Charles Cinema to watch the highly influential silent horror German film Nosferatu, that tell the story of the mysterious Count Orlok (Max Schreck) who summons Thomas Hutter (Gustav von Wangenheim) to his remote Transylvanian castle in the mountains. The eerie Orlok seeks to buy…

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Casper (1995) 49:16

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Izzy has selected a film full of childhood nostalgia for her with Casper (1995) which follows the title character who peacefully haunts a mansion called Whipstaff Manor, meeting and befriending a teenage girl named Kat Harvey (Christina Ricci), the daughter of Dr. James Harvey (Bill Pullman), a paranormal therapist who is hired to move into Whipsta…

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Whistle and I’ll Come to You (1968) 34:06

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Hal's gone a bit left-field again for his next Spooktober choice, and he's picked out a classic BBC adaptation of an equally classic ghost story about a skeptical professor on vacation in Norfolk who finds a cursed whistle, starring Michael Hordern. Director: Jonathan Miller"Do you believe in Ghosts Professor?"…

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