Richard Luck

Michael Caine - "Thank God I Was Stupid." On making The Quiet American, being friends with Graham Greene, and touring the opium dens of Vietnam with a 'technical advisor'...

Many happy returns, Sir Michael. #michaelcaine #sirmichaelcaine richardluck.substack.com/p/michael-ca...

Remembering the remarkable John Cazale who died #onthis day in 1978, aged just 42.

You're welcome, Ray. I am here to astonish.

Hope everyone's doing something nice for L Ron Hubbard's birthday...

Geoffrey Hayes of Rainbow fame was born #onthisday in 1942. Before he moved in with George, Bungle and Zippy, he delivered a propeller to David Hemmings in Antonioni's Blow-Up. That's him on the right.

Christine Keeler - The Other Men In Her Life Profiling the men of means who shared their bed with the woman at the heart of the Profumo affair.

With Scandal airing on @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social tonight at 9.20pm, here's a Premium Substack piece on the men in Christine Keeler's life besides Messrs Profumo, Ivanov and co... richardluck.substack.com/p/christine-...

The Oscars Review Board - 3) Actors Putting the blokes under the microscope.

Still more from the Oscars Review Board. In this Premium Substack post, I put actors under the spotlight... richardluck.substack.com/p/the-oscars... #oscars

The Oscars Review Board - 2) Actresses The girls can't help it...

The Oscars Review Board is busy as ever in the run-up to the Academy Awards. In this FREE Substack post, I take a look at the actresses who got lucky and the ladies who lost out... richardluck.substack.com/p/the-oscars... #oscars #oscar2026

The Oscars Review Board - 2) Actresses The girls can't help it...

The Oscars Review Board is busy as ever in the run-up to the Academy Awards. In this FREE Substack post, I take a look at the actresses who got lucky and the ladies who lost out... richardluck.substack.com/p/the-oscars... #oscars #oscar2026

Great to see Anthony Page's Absolution available on Prime again - Richard Burton, Billy Connolly, Andrew Kier, Big Deal's Sharon Duce, Kes's David Bradley and Brian Glover, Robin Of Sherwood's Robert Addie *and* comedy producer extraordinaire Jon Plowman!

Fingers - Under Review Harvey Keitel's finest Scorsese-free performance?

Today's Premium Substack post - reviewing James Toback's Fingers, the film which features Harvey Keitel's greatest performance... richardluck.substack.com/p/fingers-un...

Yes, I was thinking 'well used'.

A very rare shot from the aborted British, 1950s-set Ghostbusters remake.

Wonder how sinister the Fuzzy Felt Judas looked?

The Sand Pebbles - Under Review The film that sent Steve McQueen to the Oscars.

Another - yes, another! - FREE Substack post - reviewing The Sand Pebbles, a film that's aged about as well as I have... richardluck.substack.com/p/the-sand-p...

The Oscars Review Board - 1) Directors The filmmakers who were fortunate, the geniuses that were jipped...

With the Academy Awards almost upon us, my Oscars Review Board is sitting again. In this - FREE- piece, I look at the Best Director winners who should have been shunned, and the people who ought to have been praised in their place... #Oscars #Oscars2026 richardluck.substack.com/p/the-oscars...

The Oscars Review Board - 1) Directors The filmmakers who were fortunate, the geniuses that were jipped...

With the Academy Awards almost upon us, my Oscars Review Board is sitting again. In this - FREE- piece, I look at the Best Director winners who should have been shunned, and the people who ought to have been praised in their place... #Oscars #Oscars2026 richardluck.substack.com/p/the-oscars...

Classic Scene - Withnail & I (1987) "We're coming back in here..."

Another FREE Substack post, from back when I used to compile the Classic Scenes for the Australian version of Empire magazine... richardluck.substack.com/p/classic-sc...

Ken Adam, the fighter pilot who defined the look of Bond Like Stanley Kubrick, his gift was to imagine and then realise the unimaginable, the unrealisable – places you could never go

Remembering the incomparable Ken Adam who died #onthisday in 2016. www.thenewworld.co.uk/richard-luck...

Adaptation - Under Review Plenty of Cage-on-Cage action.

Another Premium Substack review - Spike Jonze's Adaptation... richardluck.substack.com/p/adaptation...

Donnie Darko - Under Review Donnie Darko (2001)

Another Premium Substack post - Donnie Darko goes under review... richardluck.substack.com/p/donnie-dar...

A new Soho Bites podcast is always worth getting excited about. One featuring Stephen Armstrong doubly so.

Airplane! and Airplane II: The Sequel - Under Review "Surely, you're not going to review them both!?"

Another FREE Substack post - running the rule over the awesome Airplane! and it's so-so sequel... richardluck.substack.com/p/airplane-a...

Blondie - Hanging On The Telephone YouTube video by BlondieVEVO

For International Women's Day, the ultimate international woman. #InternationalWomensDay youtube.com/watch?v=uWhk...

Black And White - Under Review Ben Mendelsohn is Rupert Murdoch!

A new Premium Substack piece - reviewing Black And White (2002), the Australian crime drama starring Charles Dance and, as the young Rupert Murdoch, Ben Mendelsohn... richardluck.substack.com/p/black-and-...

They like that, the little girls.

Remembering Stanley Kubrick who died #onthisday in 1999. Here he is demonstrating his version of Danny' The Dealer's drink-driving doll from Withnail And I... #StanleyKubrick #kubrickday

Remembering Gordon Parks who died #onthisday in 2006.

Remembering Stanley Kubrick who died #onthisday in 1999. Here he is demonstrating his version of Danny' The Dealer's drink-driving doll from Withnail And I... #StanleyKubrick #kubrickday

Guy Pearce and John Hurt, The Proposition, @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social, 12.40am.