Bank holidays are a time to gather round the television and grumble because it’s raining outside. Traditionally, it’s also a time for broadcasters to put on the same daft old movies they always show at Bank Holidays. Come Christmas, there’s The Great Escape, of course, but depending on the time of year, you may get to see North Sea Hijack, Juggernaut or one of the other old redoubtables. So today’s question is:
What’s your favourite Bank Holiday movie?
You can include movies on DVD if there’s one you always watch over the bank holidays.
As always, leave a comment with your answer or a link to your answer on your own blog.
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I’m Rob Buckley, a journalist who writes for UK media magazines that most people have never heard of although you might have heard me on the podcast Lockdown Land or Radio 5 Live’s Saturday Edition or Afternoon Edition. I’ve edited Dreamwatch, Sprocket and Cambridge Film Festival Daily; been technical editor for TV producers magazine Televisual; reviewed films for the short-lived newspaper Cambridge Insider; written features for the even shorter-lived newspaper Soho Independent; and was regularly sarcastic about television on the blink-and-you-missed-it “web site for urban hedonists” The Tribe. Since going freelance, I've contributed to the likes of Broadcast, Total Content + Media, Action TV, Off The Telly, Action Network, TV Scoop and The Custard TV.
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