"I can't stand innuendo. If I see one in a script I whip it out immediately." Remembering Kenneth Williams on what would've been his 100th birthday. #KennethWilliams

A little more on the Peckinpah front: Having been writing about Sam Peckinpah since 1997, I'm surprised how I still find myself with so much to say about the director and his pictures. However, if you'll indulge me, I'd like to trot out an old anecdote about one of the... /1 #SamPeckinpah

A little more on the Peckinpah front: Having been writing about Sam Peckinpah since 1997, I'm surprised how I still find myself with so much to say about the director and his pictures. However, if you'll indulge me, I'd like to trot out an old anecdote about one of the... /1 #SamPeckinpah

Christopher Plummer and James Mason, Murder By Decree, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 8pm.

On the anniversary of Sam Peckinpah's birth, a FREE Substack post dedicated to his misunderstood cavalry epic Major Dundee... #sampeckinpah richardluck.substack.com/p/sam-peckin...

Just seen Alex Cox's Dead Souls and it's terrific. Indeed, my endorsement runs to it carrying my name in the credits! #deadsouls #alexcox

Remembering 'The Russian Lion' Georg Hackenschmidt who died #onthisday in 1968. Here - FREE on Substack - is his story... richardluck.substack.com/p/how-the-ru...

Just seen Alex Cox's Dead Souls and it's terrific. Indeed, my endorsement runs to it carrying my name in the credits! #deadsouls #alexcox

Remembering Gene Hackman, one year on. #genehackman

Now available on the BBC iPlayer... www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Chin chin, Tom Noonan - excellent as the wheelchair-bound Kelso in Michael Mann's Heat. #tomnoonan

A favourite Jesse Jackson memory - the reverend reading Green Eggs And Ham on SNL... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIA...

A favourite Jesse Jackson memory - the reverend reading Green Eggs And Ham on SNL... www.youtube.com/watch?v=CXIA...

Peter Cook, A Dandy In Aspic, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 9pm.

New to @primevideouk.bsky.social, Pasolini's The Decameron. www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

'Happy Pancake Day!' Are we actually saying that now?!

Farewell to the incomparable Robert Duvall.

With the original Red Dawn on 5Action from 9pm, here's a Premium Substack post in which I discuss the film with its director, the inimitable John Milius (that's him wearing the Red Army hat, with Patrick Swayze)... richardluck.substack.com/p/john-miliu...

Had a shock watching Nigel Kneale's supernatural drama Murrain when I realised the mad woman in the cottage is none other than Una Brandon-Jones, aka Mrs Parkin, the mad woman in the cottage in Withnail & I! If only someone had pointed out that they weren't from London...

📽️ If, like me, you enjoy Soho sci-fi with your cornflakes, make sure to catch “The Night Caller” (1965) on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tomorrow at 6:15am. Doncaster’s favourite son @cevni.bsky.social of @househammerpod.bsky.social talked about it way back in ep 21 sohobitespodcast.com/episode/21

Many happy returns, Ollie!

Many happy returns, Matt Salinger - small-screen Captain America and son of JD.

Many happy returns, Matt Salinger - small-screen Captain America and son of JD.

Many happy returns, Ollie!

Released in the UK #OnThisDay in 1988. #Withnail www.thenewworld.co.uk/brexit-news-...

Well put, Charles Darwin.

Bye bye, Bud Cort - excellent in so many things but awesomely odious as the corrupt restaurant manager in Michael Mann's Heat. Unbilled, too. #BudCort

Ahead of this Saturday's Sixth Nations Scotland-England clash, a Premium Substack piece on memorable occasions the auld enemies have taken to the field... richardluck.substack.com/p/england-sc... #SixNations #CalcuttaCup

Ahead of this Saturday's Sixth Nations Scotland-England clash, a Premium Substack piece on memorable occasions the auld enemies have taken to the field... richardluck.substack.com/p/england-sc... #SixNations #CalcuttaCup

In the 1930s, a right-wing cabal tried to overthrow the French government. This in itself isn't surprising, right-wing coups being all the rage in '30s Europe. What is remarkable, however, is that the coup was organised by the chairman of L'Oreal. The boycott begins now...

The mighty Roy Scheider died on this day in 2008. In this Premium Substack piece, I investigate his decision to have a facelift later in life... richardluck.substack.com/p/roy-scheid...

Remembering Jan-Michael Vincent who died #onthisday in 2019.

Another FREE Substack post, since I couldn't allow the Winter Olympics to go on much longer without singing the praises of the incomparable Jean-Claude Killy... #winterolympics #downhill richardluck.substack.com/p/king-of-th...

I see @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social is repeating Give Us A Clue. Can't say I was that interested but then I caught an episode in which Emma Thompson - yes, *that Emma Thompson - tackled The Falcon And The Snowman and I've been obsessed ever since!

Burt Reynolds, Deliverance, BBC Two, 11.50pm.

"American football - like rugby without any rhythm." - Robbie Coltrane

Ah, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social *and* @sohobites.bsky.social! Now there's a super-hero team-up any serious film fan should be excited about.

Ah, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social *and* @sohobites.bsky.social! Now there's a super-hero team-up any serious film fan should be excited about.

Dennis Hopper on his friend and mentor James Dean who died #onthisday in 1954: Working with Jimmy was incredible. He had real dynamite - no one else had his power. He could literally do Hamlet standing on his head. After he died, I got fired from a movie because I had an argument... /1 #JamesDean

Remembering Albert Finney who died #onthisday in 2019. #albertfinney

A new FREE Substack post: What If..? - Part Three! richardluck.substack.com/p/what-if-pa...

A new FREE Substack post: What If..? - Part Three! richardluck.substack.com/p/what-if-pa...

One of the best things going today.

With Benedetta on Film4 tonight at 11.55m, here's my profile of Dutch cinema's 'God Of Shock' Paul Verhoeven... www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-weird-an...

With Benedetta on Film4 tonight at 11.55m, here's my profile of Dutch cinema's 'God Of Shock' Paul Verhoeven... www.thenewworld.co.uk/the-weird-an...

It was #onthisday last year that both James Corden *and* the IRA were trending on X. Now there's a Carpool Karaoke I'd make time for...

Remarkable the things you stumble upon. I mean, I knew Leaving Las Vegas author John O'Brien didn't live to see his novel adapted for the big screen. However, what I wasn't aware of was that, in 1992, O'Brien wrote an episode of Nickelodeon's Rugrats!

Remarkable the things you stumble upon. I mean, I knew Leaving Las Vegas author John O'Brien didn't live to see his novel adapted for the big screen. However, what I wasn't aware of was that, in 1992, O'Brien wrote an episode of Nickelodeon's Rugrats!

Plenty of comparisons between the Epstein scandal and the Profumo affair being drawn today... richardluck.substack.com/p/when-chris...

Plenty of comparisons between the Epstein scandal and the Profumo affair being drawn today... richardluck.substack.com/p/when-chris...