Commentary Club

For our Christmas special this year we are going back to 1947 to revisit The Bishop's Wife, a charming celestial comedy set at Yuletide starring Cary Grant, David Niven and Loretta Young.

"You want the past? Oh I'll send you back... Back, back where you will never be found!"

We watch the fifth episode of The Box of Delights - Beware of Yesterday, in which Kay takes a perilous journey into the past.

For our classic film selection for this December, we revisit a seasonal favourite, the original Die Hard(1988) the film that made Bruce Willis a mega star and maybe the best action movie ever made!

"It's the old Punch and Judy man! But he must be five hundred... seven hundred years old!"

We watch the fourth episode of The Box of Delights - The Spider in the Web, more scrobbling sends Kay to search for Abner's headquarters

In this show, for our crap film selection, we attempt to get festive with the alleged rom com A Very British Christmas (2019) which at least was filmed in the beautiful Yorkshire town of Knaresborough!

"They know I can look after myself. I've generally got a pistol or two on me and I'm a dead shot with both hands."

We watch the third episode of The Box of Delights - In Darkest Cellars Underneath, in which Abner escalates his search for the box...

To mark the 40th anniversary of the BBC's The Box of Delights, an adaptation of the classic novel by John Masefield, we are rewatching the classic TV series one episode at at time, week by week just like back in 1984. In this episode we see how young Kay Harker encounters the mysterious Cole Hawlins, and some sinister folks who are very interested in his old magic...

In this show, we revisit a modern cult favourite, the dark comedy In Bruges (2008) starring Colin O'Farrell, Brendan Gleeson, and Ralph Fiennes.

For our traditional Hallowe'en special, we watch a modern Hallowe'en favourite - Hocus Pocus (1993) starring Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy as three Salem witches from 1693 resurrected to wreak havoc in the modern age!