While VHS is pretty much a dead medium now, there are special editions of certain tapes that can fetch ridiculous amounts of money. Because VHS tapes are hardly made anymore, there are some movies which are incredibly difficult to find in the format, with just a few hundred copies to their names. For example, due to the...
While England is undoubtedly the target of criticism when it comes to the many facets of its cultural offerings – say cuisine, for example – there’s no denying that the country provides some truly breathtaking natural scenery. It’s equally valid that English people possess offbeat humour and sometimes outright weirdness....
Even though it’s regularly held up as one of the greatest comedies ever made, the brains behind Monty Python and the Holy Grail have been happy to admit they were resolutely ill-equipped and under-prepared for making a feature film....
Coincidentally came up in a post on US remakes of British TV shows but I thought was worth a separate post (but go and check that other thread out too):...
At one point in time, there was no way to watch your favourite movies of all time without the humble DVD, a video format that compressed a movie onto a handy disc rather than a bulky VHS tape. First released in 1996 before the rise of Netflix in 2007 would spark its downfall, DVDs were immensely popular in the early 2000s,...