@sarahbabsmorgan.bsky.social
Film, TV and book reviewer, entertainment journalist, all-round classic movie obsessive. Podcaster. Draws a bit too. Supports Sheffield Wednesday for some reason.
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For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
10 Underappreciated American Neo-Noirs of the Early 1970s
The domestic blowback of the Vietnam War. The sleaze and corruption of Watergate. The incipient rollback of the counterculture and many gains of the 1960s. Economic recession. The upheaval and unce…
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November 29, 2025 at 10:14 AM
For your #Noirvember viewing pleasure, here’s another post from the vault. My @crimereads.bsky.social piece from a couple of ago on under appreciated American neo-noirs of the first half of the 1970s. I still think this list is pretty solid.
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
crimereads.com/10-underappr...
Hotel, train and ticket booked. I’m ready!
Tickets now on sale for our super new #CellarClub 'LIVE' event! Limited tickets folks! A fabulous new venue 😀 The Water Rats, London, with #CarolineMunro #KimNewman @AnnoDracula and mystery guests! Book now! Call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/XMX7WIs
November 25, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Hotel, train and ticket booked. I’m ready!
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Tickets are now on sale!! A #TPTV Exclusive Event!!
PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23 & Sun 24 May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend!
Tickets are limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/mLDl6jP
PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23 & Sun 24 May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend!
Tickets are limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/mLDl6jP
November 23, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Tickets are now on sale!! A #TPTV Exclusive Event!!
PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23 & Sun 24 May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend!
Tickets are limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/mLDl6jP
PETER CUSHING: WEEKEND IN WHITSTABLE Sat 23 & Sun 24 May 2026. An event celebrating the life and career of a screen legend!
Tickets are limited so book now - call 0808 178 8212 or online here: buff.ly/mLDl6jP
I’ve contributed a wee bio of Lizabeth Scott for this forthcoming release. hammerfilms.com/products/sto...
Stolen Face Limited Collector's Edition
Film Noir femme fatale Lizabeth Scott gives a searing performance in this macabre melodrama that offers a dark twist on the Pygmalion myth.
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November 21, 2025 at 8:43 PM
I’ve contributed a wee bio of Lizabeth Scott for this forthcoming release. hammerfilms.com/products/sto...
I have bought this book. It is next on my TBR pile.
CATS ON FILM (kindle or paperback)
"possibly the greatest book ever"
"one of the finest pieces of specialist film scholarship published in recent years”
“Bonus: includes My Day by Jones, AKA Alien from the cat's PoV. Fun!”
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1978038747
"possibly the greatest book ever"
"one of the finest pieces of specialist film scholarship published in recent years”
“Bonus: includes My Day by Jones, AKA Alien from the cat's PoV. Fun!”
www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1978038747
November 18, 2025 at 2:21 PM
I have bought this book. It is next on my TBR pile.
Currently watching Sky Arts’ Classic Movies episode about The Railway Children and imagining everybody in Yorkshire cringing at the mispronunciation of Keighley.
I cried again at the “daddy, my daddy” clip though.
I cried again at the “daddy, my daddy” clip though.
November 15, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Currently watching Sky Arts’ Classic Movies episode about The Railway Children and imagining everybody in Yorkshire cringing at the mispronunciation of Keighley.
I cried again at the “daddy, my daddy” clip though.
I cried again at the “daddy, my daddy” clip though.
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London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film.
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
"And where do you live, Simon"? The Asylum and its Patients on Film - The Miskatonic Institute of Horror Studies
Exploring film, folklore, and media, this lecture asks why female rage is pathologised while male violence remains disturbingly normalised.
miskatonicinstitute.com
November 12, 2025 at 10:50 AM
London folks: come to @miskatonicihs.bsky.social on 9 December to hear Headpress Press Officer @harbottlestores.bsky.social talk about the history of the asylum on film.
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
#histpsych #horror #session9 #historyofhorror #horrorstudies
Tickets: miskatonicinstitute.com/events/the-a...
Ooh smashing! I love Bernie. The best of the Carry On actors too.
And here's a Hammer Bite on that most unlikely of Hammer Heroes, Bernard Bresslaw. A man who, very nearly, almost had Christopher Lee's career...
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www.spreaker.com/episode/hamm...
Hammer Bites: Bernard Bresslaw
Following our previous Hammer Bites about "The Army Game", Cev's here to take a quick look at the life & career of Bernard Bresslaw, a man who casts a long
www.spreaker.com
November 12, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ooh smashing! I love Bernie. The best of the Carry On actors too.
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that this is the best photo you'll see all day.
Woman in a purple hat, Manchester, 1985, photo by Shirley Baker (1932-2014).
November 12, 2025 at 9:24 AM
I'm going to stick my neck out here and say that this is the best photo you'll see all day.
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I’ve written about it and Night of the Big Heat in this: exileinthemargins.bigcartel.com/product/beda...
BEDABBLED!#8
"A Day At The Beach." The Journal of British Horror and Cult Cinema rolls up its trousers and takes a trip to the coast to paddle in the...
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November 9, 2025 at 10:05 AM
I’ve written about it and Night of the Big Heat in this: exileinthemargins.bigcartel.com/product/beda...
I was nicknamed Babs at uni, although it didn't really stick. When I started work, there were so many Sarahs I suggested they call me Babs instead. Nearly 30 years on, that's all I'm known as to colleagues. Nobody I've met outside the office ever uses it; I'm always Sarah.
I have unfollowed people on social media who have called me Andy. It’s not my name. I am not an Andy. You might as well call me Ronald. Call people by the name they want.
Dump him, girl www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
November 7, 2025 at 11:52 AM
I was nicknamed Babs at uni, although it didn't really stick. When I started work, there were so many Sarahs I suggested they call me Babs instead. Nearly 30 years on, that's all I'm known as to colleagues. Nobody I've met outside the office ever uses it; I'm always Sarah.
Whether you're a fan of his humour or not, it doesn't matter – this will be a fascinating chat with one of the nicest men in the world. Me and @real-meaning.bsky.social hung out with him backstage at a @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social event last month, and he and his wife were adorable.
Exclusive interview with #JimmyCricket filmed live at the #PlazaLiverpool
😆 TALKING PICTURES TV WITH JIMMY CRICKET 10:35am Jimmy shares laughter and tears with @MikeReadUK as they discuss his showbusiness career.
😆 TALKING PICTURES TV WITH JIMMY CRICKET 10:35am Jimmy shares laughter and tears with @MikeReadUK as they discuss his showbusiness career.
November 5, 2025 at 8:49 AM
Whether you're a fan of his humour or not, it doesn't matter – this will be a fascinating chat with one of the nicest men in the world. Me and @real-meaning.bsky.social hung out with him backstage at a @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social event last month, and he and his wife were adorable.
And an essay about Richard Carlson by me!
October 30, 2025 at 1:54 PM
And an essay about Richard Carlson by me!
It’s great. I write for it sometimes, but don’t let that put you off.
A special limited offer! Take a look at the magazine they're all talking about! The #TPTV 'proper' mag, perfect for all supporters of film and TV history, INTERMISSION Magazine. Take issues 16, 17 & 18 for just £15! Every issue packed with nostalgia! buff.ly/GUhXihQ
October 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
It’s great. I write for it sometimes, but don’t let that put you off.
Neil Diamond’s approach to Method Acting for The Jazz Singer
October 26, 2025 at 8:16 PM
Catching up with The Footage Detectives on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The letter about street artists reminded me of when me and a mate gave it a go in Sheffield in the early 1990s. We took £2.35; it cost us £2.50 return on the train. Maybe said a lot about our talent…
October 26, 2025 at 8:06 PM
Catching up with The Footage Detectives on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social The letter about street artists reminded me of when me and a mate gave it a go in Sheffield in the early 1990s. We took £2.35; it cost us £2.50 return on the train. Maybe said a lot about our talent…
Maybe it’s time I got around to reading this…
October 25, 2025 at 8:49 PM
Maybe it’s time I got around to reading this…
Where did you get that hat,
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a funny one or
Just the proper style?
I would like to have one,
Just the same as that.
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a funny one or
Just the proper style?
I would like to have one,
Just the same as that.
October 25, 2025 at 8:42 PM
Where did you get that hat,
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a funny one or
Just the proper style?
I would like to have one,
Just the same as that.
Where did you get that tile?
Isn't it a funny one or
Just the proper style?
I would like to have one,
Just the same as that.
Not only did tonight’s The Vise on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social feature a young Christopher Lee as a killer, Ronnie Corbett popped up too.
October 19, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Not only did tonight’s The Vise on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social feature a young Christopher Lee as a killer, Ronnie Corbett popped up too.
My favourite of Hammer’s Frankenstein films. Freddie Jones is brilliant here.
Hammers fifth and arguably finest crack at creation. Superbly crafted grim gothic nihilism strikingly shot with the fantastic Cushing in cruel mode. 1969.
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #hammerhorror #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
#horrorcommunity #horrorfamily #film #horrormovie #horrorfilm #horrorfan #classichorror #hammerhorror #filmsky #horrorsky #mutantfam #horrorfam
October 18, 2025 at 9:03 AM
My favourite of Hammer’s Frankenstein films. Freddie Jones is brilliant here.
Hammer’s Dracula
Dead of Night
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
The Curse of Frankenstein
Dead of Night
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
The Curse of Frankenstein
The Exorcist
The Stone Tapes
Gremlins
Frenzy
The Stone Tapes
Gremlins
Frenzy
Is The Seventh Seal a horror movie? It is one of my favourite films of all time, but I never refer to it as a horror movie and now I'm not sure why.
October 16, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Hammer’s Dracula
Dead of Night
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
The Curse of Frankenstein
Dead of Night
The Satanic Rites of Dracula
The Curse of Frankenstein
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Our episode about THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (1966), bongo playing ,movie zombies and cocktails is available wherever you get your podcasts from.
October 15, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Our episode about THE PLAGUE OF THE ZOMBIES (1966), bongo playing ,movie zombies and cocktails is available wherever you get your podcasts from.
Thought it was going to be slim pickings in Beverley today, but there was a late flurry. Particularly pleased with the Public Eye tie-in (£2!). Shame the Oxfam sticker won’t come off The Ipcress File without taking some of the cover with it.
October 14, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Thought it was going to be slim pickings in Beverley today, but there was a late flurry. Particularly pleased with the Public Eye tie-in (£2!). Shame the Oxfam sticker won’t come off The Ipcress File without taking some of the cover with it.
Wonderful stuff!
Our brew ☕ and biccies 🍪 classic matinee today stars #PeterCushing #AndreMorell in the #HammerFilms thriller
💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles
💷 CASH ON DEMAND (1961) 3:40pm #TPTVsubtitles
October 14, 2025 at 1:08 PM
Wonderful stuff!