………….when I was a teenager my favourite reading matter was Halliwell’s Film Guide. It had a permanent place next to my bed. The rest of the family must have thought I was mad. I used to love opening the pages randomly and reading about the films listed there. Checking out the star ratings and paying particular attention to the four star films as ones to keep an eye out for in case they were shown on TV. This was in the good old days when foreign films were a regular feature on the four channels available to us.