Who’s up for a ghost story at Christmas? Plenty of people, judging by the British television schedules, with adaptations of MR James and Susan Hill jostling for position alongside Peaky Blinders creator Steven Knight’s revisionist A Christmas Carol. The dark, chilly, rainy nights lend themselves perfectly to a fireside tale, […]
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Few cinematic institutions rival Ealing Studios; the only similar shadows are cast by British Horror emblem Hammer and the Hong Kong Martial Arts stalwarts, the Shaw Brothers. Between 1930 and 1959, the West London studio bore cinematic fruit that not only stands up to this day, many titles could also […]