Nichelle Nichols, the actress who played Lt Nyota Uhura, communications officer to the USS Enterprise, in the Star Trek science fiction TV series in the late 1960s and later movie series has died at the age of 89. Nichols who at one time wanted to give up the role was...
We are sad to note that veteran comedy actor and narrator Bernard Cribbins OBE has died at the age of 93. After a small part as a sonar operating sailor in HMS Amethyst (1957), his initial fame came in co-starring with Peter Sellars in the classic comedy films Two...
For those of us who were teenage boys when it was released, Tony Scott’s Top Gun (1986) was an inspirational movie that made us all, briefly, want to be fighter pilots. It told the story of a rebellious, slightly childish, young US Navy aviator, in the form of Tom...
Don’t Look Up (2021) has become the must see movie this Christmas…but not everyone likes it. Produced and aired by Netflix, and directed by Adam McKay, it is all the space/geo-disaster movies you have ever seen like When Worlds Collide (1951), Meteor...
William Shatner, the Canadian-born actor who played Captain James T. Kirk in the Star Trek TV and film series, finally got his wish to make it into space. He flew with three others above the “Karman line”, the official 100 km limit that marks space, aboard the...
This writer sometimes likes to list his top five James Bond movies, partly to work out what makes a good one. The list currently runs as follows: 1. You Only Live Twice (1967); 2. The Spy Who Loved Me (1976); 3. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969): 4. Casino...
