CINEMA RETRO VOL 21 (2025)

Following our the sold-out Matt Helm Special in 2023 comes our first Movie Classics issue in over a year. Dedicated to John Sturges' classic Western The Magnificent Seven, this 64-page issue features an in-depth telling of the film by Brian Hannan, and also covers the three sequels and television show. Along with a section on the music and the records released, this special also has a foreword by film historian Sir Christopher Frayling. Featuring hundreds of photos, including many never-seen-before behind-the-scenes-shots, this is the definitive story on the much-loved film.

Nicholas Anez looks at No Love for Jonnie (1961), a political drama in which Peter Finch gives an outstanding performance; "Selling Bond": Dave Worrall tells the remarkable story of how a British cinema promoted the release of the James Bond adventure Goldfinger in late September 1964, which coincides with the films 60th anniversary; regular contributor Simon Lewis gives us an Omar Sharif 'Film in Focus' double bill covering The Last Valley and The Horsemen, both released in 1971; "Hammer Unmade": John LeMay looks at the aborted attempt by Britain's famous horror film company to join forces with Japan's Toho Studios to make a film about the Loch Ness Monster; Morten Sagen interviews titles animator Trevor Bond, who worked, amongst others, on the early James Bond films.

Our first issue of 2025, our 21st year in print, has an amazing mix of articles, including Simon Lewis's 12-page "Film in Focus" feature on Richard Attenborough's Young Winston (1972), and Dave Worrall recall's Ross Hunter's Lost Horizon (1973), and Guy Hamilton's Force 10 From Navarone (1978). Ian Brown remembers the late Hammer Films producer, Roy Skeggs, and Nicholas Anez explores Gregory Peck's Marooned (1969). There's also a special feature about John Ford's Cheyanne Autumn (1964) by John P. Harty.

Our second issue of 2025 has an amazing mix of articles, including a behind-the-scenes look at the Walt Disney live-action adventure The Fighting Prince of Donegal (1966), a superb feature on the matte paintings of the Hammer horror films, and a 12-page 'Film in Focus' behind-the-scenes study of Fred Zinnemann's The Day of the Jackal (1973). Brian Davidson covers Alfred Hitchcock's Torn Curtain (1966), Lee Pfeiffer remembers Where Eagles Dare's Derren Nesbitt, and our second 'Film in Focus' is an in-depth article on Pete Walker's star-studded horror film House of the Long Shadows (1983). All of this, plus a feature on Sam Peckinpah at 100, Robert Wise's Flight of the Phoenix (1965), and the usual round-up of CD, Book and DVD reviews.