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

Just learnt of Lee Tamahori's passing. A career that yielded Once Were Warriors is worthy of acknowledgement.

And with Quiz Show on Great! TV from 9pm, here's my piece for @thenewworldmag.bsky.social about American TV's first great scandal... www.thenewworld.co.uk/brexit-news-...

Another FREE Substack post and the 100 has a new entry - Michael Apted's The Squeeze... richardluck.substack.com/p/100-the-sq...

On the anniversary of his passing, a FREE Substack piece on my idiosyncratic relationship with Steve McQueen... richardluck.substack.com/p/me-and-ste...

A FREE Substack post - 10 Greatest Movie Hit-Men, Part One! richardluck.substack.com/p/10-greates...

A FREE Substack post - 10 Greatest Movie Hit-Men, Part One! richardluck.substack.com/p/10-greates...

Got admire the ambition of the Running Man ad campaign... www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/c5...

Another Substack Premium Post - the latest 100 entry: Cool Hand Luke... richardluck.substack.com/p/100-cool-h...

Hats off to the BBC for restoring Peter Watkins' The War Game to the iPlayer. www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Another Substack Premium Post - the latest 100 entry: Cool Hand Luke... richardluck.substack.com/p/100-cool-h...

It was #onthisday in 1985 that *this* first aired... #edgeofdarkness www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/epis...

Another Premium Substack post - running the rule over Kill Bills: Vol.1 and 2... richardluck.substack.com/p/kill-bills...

Remembering the brilliant Ian Bannen who died on this day in 1999. Here he is having the shit kicked out of him by fellow Scot Sean Connery in Sidney Lumet's The Offence.

Remembering the brilliant Ian Bannen who died on this day in 1999. Here he is having the shit kicked out of him by fellow Scot Sean Connery in Sidney Lumet's The Offence.

Born #onthisday in 1913, Burt Lancaster. And while I know I've posted this FREE Substack piece before, you can never celebrate The Swimmer enough in my opinion... richardluck.substack.com/p/in-the-dri...

Born #onthisday in 1913, Burt Lancaster. And while I know I've posted this FREE Substack piece before, you can never celebrate The Swimmer enough in my opinion... richardluck.substack.com/p/in-the-dri...

Chin chin, Tchéky Karyo. So pleased he finally had his days in the sun. So sad they didn't last longer. thenewworld.co.uk/brexit-news-... #tchekykaryo #themissing #baptiste

Many happy returns, Michael Kitchen. And if you've never seen Unman, Wittering And Zigo, now's your chance... www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

Remembering Sean Connery who died #onthisday in 2020 - great in so many things but never better than in Sidney Lumet's The Hill. richardluck.substack.com/p/the-hill-c...

Airing tomorrow on BBC Two at 11.40pm, Nicolas Roeg's Don't Look Now. www.thenewworld.co.uk/love-and-dea...

Just been reminded of the couple whose wedding dance was to U2's 'I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For'.

Michael Winner was born on this day in 1935. Here he is selling condoms in Piccadilly Circus after losing a bet with Marlon Brando over the correct pronunciation of 'integral'.

A FREE Substack post - John Carpenter's The Thing receives the Classic Scene treatment... richardluck.substack.com/p/classic-sc...

Many happy returns, Kevin Macdonald. To mark the occasion, here's a Premium Substack post the making of his BAFTA-winning mountaineering documentary, Into The Void... richardluck.substack.com/p/kevin-macd...

A short FREE Substack post - celebrating Ray Harryhausen's fx masterpiece, The Valley Of Gwangi... richardluck.substack.com/p/the-valley...

A FREE Substack post to kick-off the week - The Player gets the Classic Scene treatment... richardluck.substack.com/p/classic-sc...

On what should've been his birthday, a free look at five of Bob Hoskins' greatest performances... richardluck.substack.com/p/five-of-th...

"Daylight savings time? Ha, I give it about six months." Norm Macdonald

With School For Scoundrels on BBC Two at 12pm, here - FREE! - is my celebration of the life and times of the inimitable Terry-Thomas... richardluck.substack.com/p/hard-chees...

Finally got around to watching the latest Jurassic World movie. The most far-fetched thing about it? In the future, people have grown bored with dinosaurs.

Coming late to Apple TV's Severance, I was very chuffed when the writer Jerry Stahl popped up playing Magnus. As a big fan of the man and his work, here again - FREE! - is my piece on Jerry's Permanent Midnight, his extraordinary addiction memoir... #severance

Coming late to Apple TV's Severance, I was very chuffed when the writer Jerry Stahl popped up playing Magnus. As a big fan of the man and his work, here again - FREE! - is my piece on Jerry's Permanent Midnight, his extraordinary addiction memoir... #severance

On the anniversary of Vincent Price's passing, a Premium Substack piece on Michael Reeves, the young British filmmaker who directed the mighty Mr Price to one of his greatest performances in Witchfinder General... richardluck.substack.com/p/michael-re...

A Premium Substack piece taking a look at a handful of cult movies including Aussie masterpieces like Peterson and The Last Of The Knucklemen... richardluck.substack.com/p/cult-movie...

"Hello? I need a film clip that sums up 1980s West Germany in toto. Any clues?" "I believe I have just the thing, Sir." www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqRl...

Have been re-reading Werner Herzog's autobiography. As a young child, his pet goose was eaten by a wolf. It would seem Werner Herzog's life was Werner Herzog-ian pretty much from the off.

A year-old today - a short piece about the terrible movies Sirs John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson, Alec Guinness and Laurence Olivier made in their twilight years. It can only be, Knights In Shite Cash-Ins! richardluck.substack.com/p/knights-in...

Very sad to learn of the death of Soft Cell's Dave Ball. The first rehab I attended, we weren't allowed to listen to non-Christian music (oh, imagine the fun!) A month in, however, I was flicking through the TV channels when I chanced upon a TOTP2 repeat... /1 #daveball #softcell

A FREE Substack post - and after posting that atmospheric Straw Dogs photo, here's what I made of Sam Peckinpah's picture. richardluck.substack.com/p/straw-dogs...

Today's Premium Substack - and the Greatest Actor survey goes international! richardluck.substack.com/p/the-greate...

Between the recent Sky History series on witchcraft and various pre-Halloween posts, there's been lot of talk of late about this chap, Matthew Hopkins, the self-styled Witchfinder General. What there's been less talk of is the economic benefits of his 'craft'. At the height of his... /1

Dirk Bogarde, Accident, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 9.10pm

Tonight on BBC Two at 12.10am, The Haunting. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Today's Premium Substack post find me running the rule over three music documentaries, starting with John Dower's BritPop celebration Live Forever... richardluck.substack.com/p/music-docu...

A short FREE Substack post - and with Halloween around the corner, now's the perfect time to get acquainted with Les Diaboliques... richardluck.substack.com/p/les-diabol...

Re: the recent passing of Drew Struzan, here's the documentary about the man and his work I've sometimes mentioned. Worth 97 minutes of anybody's time, if you're a Struzan fan, this is damn near essential. #DrewStruzan www.amazon.co.uk/gp/video/det...

Many happy returns Everett McGill - still one of my favourite movie cavemen. #questforfire

If, like me, you love seeing Stephen Colbert shedding tears of laughter, the following excerpt from Too Funny To Fail is especially for you! www.youtube.com/watch?v=NfDj...

Audrey Hepburn, Sean Connery and Nicol Williamson, Robin And Marian, Film4, 4.30pm.