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The aptly named "Never Give Up" does a fantastic job of grounding the outrageous in the realistic and relatable humanity that "Demon Slayer" has become known for. The episode opened immediately where the last one left off -- you know, with Tengen's severed hand, Inosuke suffering a stab wound, and Tanjiro and Zenitsu despairing amid the bloodshed and apparent defeat. It's tragic, but as I'm sure most of us suspected, this tragedy was far from the end. By now, it's pretty apparent that the plot armor adorning our young heroes is pretty thick, though not completely impenetrable, so let's...

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The Captive Heart

The Captive Heart, 4pm, Talking Pictures TV (Freeview Channel 82), Tuesday, February 1

This drama set against the backdrop of a PoW camp was one of the first of its type, arriving less than a year after Ve Day and speaking to those who were fully aware of the real thing. Like Das Boot, which is also in our selection this week, there's a real sense of the tedium of camp life as well as the trouble. It features nuanced performances by Jack Warner and Mervyn Jons as friends before the war facing this together. The standout, however, is Michael Redgrave, as a man who claims to be a British officer - having stolen the dead man's identity - and who soon falls under suspicion leading him to write to the dead man's wife (played by Redgrave's real life wife Rachel Kempson) with unexpected consequences. Although Basil Dearden occasionally.

To mark the release of The Captive Heart on 4th January, we’ve been given 3 copies to give away on DVD. Produced by Ealing Studios, starring Michael Redgrave and his wife Rachel Kempson and directed by Basil Dearden mere months after the end of the war, The Captive Heart is one of the first films

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Screenwriter behind Hammer films such as Dracula and The Curse of Frankenstein

In 1957, Hammer Films revived gothic horror – in abeyance in a decade that offered nuclear or cosmic horrors which made the classic monsters seem tame – with The Curse of Frankenstein, directed by Terence Fisher and starring Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee. To hear him tell it, Jimmy Sangster, who has died aged 83, wrote the script because no one else would, and simply typed it out and turned it in.

Yet Sangster came up with a new story – owing as little to Mary Shelley's novel as to James Whale's earlier film – and a radical depiction of Frankenstein as a determined, charming yet corrupt dandy who could still chill in an era of nuclear proliferation. Sexually amoral (he uses his monster to murder the maid he has impregnated), rigidly dividing his life (making a bloody hash in the laboratory...