The Beatles: Eight Days a Week – The Touring Years (part 1)
Has Ron Howard's 2016 documentary effectively been superseded by other films since? Probably the first official Apple film to be released as part of the Beatles legacy project, it's very polished and ...
10 Mars 202550min
Doctor Who: The Devil's Chord
The coming together of two great British cultural institutions feels fated, but how well did Russell T. Davies pull it off? We look, of course, at how accurate they've been when it comes to Beatle det...
3 Mars 20251h 5min
Yesterday (1985 Polish film)
We look at Radoslaw Piwowarski's Beatles-themed film, which won the Golden Shell at the 1985 San Sebastián International Film Festival. It's the story of teenagers in 1964 communist Poland trying to f...
24 Feb 202549min
John Lennon: Murder Without a Trial
We weren't big fans of this 2023 Apple TV+ documentary series: it's prurient and invasive, and in the parts where it suggests conspiracy theories but then does nothing to back them up, it's pretty irr...
17 Feb 20251h 3min
Sextette
Ringo Starr's film career includes the odd misstep, of course, but this 1978 vehicle for Mae West is often cited among the worst films ever made. And fair enough, it's not great. But Ringo is the best...
10 Feb 20251h 7min
Rupert and the Frog Song
Paul McCartney's 1984 short animated film was a project he'd been planning for years: buying the film rights to the Rupert the Bear character was the first thing he did after leaving The Beatles. The ...
3 Feb 202558min
An Accidental Studio
An Accidental Studio is the story of HandMade Films, the production company set up by Beatle George Harrison and his business partner Denis O'Brien, which produced or distributed Monty Python's Life o...
27 Jan 20251h 2min
The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus
In December 1968 Michael Lindsay-Hogg, who next month filmed The Beatles for the Let It Be/Get Back sessions, shot this circus-themed showcase for the post-psychedelic rock movement, starring John Len...
20 Jan 20251h 9min
