Cine-Lit – Details, episodes & analysis

We're back! After three years plus, the Cine Lit team have reconvened to resurrect the podcast for a very special season of recordings. This new season entltled Metrospective explores the film programming history of Derby's Metro Cinema (1981 - 2008) to coincide with a new exhibition dedicated to the cinema in QUAD's Montage Gallery.

Head of Film Adam Marsh is joined by Film Historian and We Belong Dead magazine editor (and former Metro Cinema customer) Darrell Buxton to explore the history of the cinema, the films that were being programmed in 1980, 1990s, and 2000's arthouse cinemas and how these programmes reflect on modern programming.

Join us for this bumper first episode as we take a deep dive in the state of cinema in the UK in the late 1970s, early 1980s, the star power of actors such as Jack Nicholson, Marilyn Monroe, James Cagney and Liv Ullman, Darrell's memories of Hell's Angels, Surrealist Cinema and the power of a great late show!

From Metro to QUAD: A Derby Story exhibition runs in QUAD's Montage Gallery from 27th September 2025 - 11th January 2026.

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The End Is Nigh! Well, for Cine-Lit it is at least. For this final episode in an almost three-year run, including over 70 podcasts on a crazy range of subjects, we are bringing the curtain down on Cine-Lit. But we couldn't go out with a whimper when we could go out with a bang. Adam and Darrel sit down and talk about Great Movie Endings. And of course, with a great movie ending, there is always the possibility of a great movie resurrection...

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With the surprising news that Jon Hamm is starring in a new Fletch film, we thought now was as good a time as any to take a look at this interesting character.

Adam and Darrell are joined by Director (and 80s Film enthusiast) Dominic Burns to explore the origins of Fletch. From the novels by Gregory McDonald through to the hit movie Fletch (1985) starring Chevy Chase and the less successful sequel Fletch Lives (1989).

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Cine-Lit continues its adventures in "What If" country as we explore the unmade Hammer projects that were announced, mooted and, in some cases, scripted films, but that languish in the might-have-been archives. In this instalment, we look at the various attempts to bring more vampires back to Hammer with proposed new Count Dracula adventures, an unconventional biopic of Bram Stoker, and attempts to bring to the screen one of the most famous vampires from the world of comics. Also, we talk about the pitch and poster to bring Scotland's most infamous aquatic monster Nessie to the big screen.

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After covering the Count from Transylvania and Mary Shelley's monstrous creation, Cine-Lit once again cracks open the vault of horror from that most British of institutions, Hammer Films. This time we venture into parts unknown, into a multiverse of Hammer as we discuss a range of much-muted but never completed Hammer productions. In this instalment we discuss an unmade fourth Dick Barton, a non-Nigel Kneale Quatermass, a Richard Matheson scripted I Am Legend, a return to Denis Wheatley's world of the occult, Zeppelins Vs. Pterodactyls and a Hammer take on Cinema's biggest star, King Kong.

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Adam and Darrell are joined by Italian horror expert and creator of the Giallo Pages fanzine John Martin to take a trip through six crime thrillers made by director Sergio Martino during the golden age of the Italian Giallo film. We look at the films and Martino's impact on this particularly violent strand of crime thriller, the Giallo. Films covered: The Strange Vice Of Mrs Wardh (1971), The Case Of The Scorpion's Tail (1971), Your Vice Is A Locked Room And Only I Have The Key (1972), All The Colours Of The Dark (1972), Torso (1973) and The Suspicious Death Of A Minor (1975).

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David Lean is one of Britain's most celebrated filmmakers, the master of the epic with such classics as Bridge On The River Kwai, Lawrence of Arabia and Doctor Zhivago. But ever the contrarians, Cine-Lit heads back before Lean started to go epic with a pair of films based on the works of Charles Dickens that are among the best ever adapted for film. Adam, Darrell and Rebecca take a closer look at Great Expectations (1946) and Oliver Twist (1948).

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In the second of our podcasts covering the knife-gloved legacy of Freddy Krueger, Adam, Darrell and Adam Crowther of QUAD's Fright Club cover parts IV-VI, Wes Craven's New Nightmare, the horror match-up to end them all Freddy Vs. Jason and 2010's ill-judged remake. They also muse on possible future instalments in the wake of the box office success of Halloween Kills and 2022's Scream.

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In a recording too epic to be constrained by one episode, Cine-Lit explores the films and legacy of the Nightmare On Elm Street franchise over two heart-pounding podcasts. Joining Adam and Darrell is Derby QUAD's Fright Club host and programmer Adam Crowther, as they talk about the man of your dreams, Freddy Krueger! In this first episode, we cover the genesis of the initial instalment, the release of the first film at the tail end of the slasher boom, the rehabilitation of Part II and the return of Wes Craven in Part III.

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Before he became KUBRICK and the film criticism world bowed at his feet, director Stanley Kubrick got his foot in the door and established his credentials in two crime films, Killer's Kiss (1955) and The Killing (1956). Adam and Darrell are joined by film lecturer David Leicester to discuss this brace of films that kickstarted one of the most revered sequences of films in cinema history.

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