Are You Now or Have You Ever Been..? Sunday Brunches

Stanley Kubrick's multi Oscar®-winning swords-and-sandals epic, centred on a Roman slave revolt headed by Kirk Douglas's titular hero, defined a genre and ushered in a new Hollywood era - and was the very first film to openly defy Hollywood's blacklist by giving Dalton Trumbo credit as the screenwriter.

The first Hollywood film to deal directly with the blacklist (and made by people who had been blacklisted themselves), this clever satire stars Woody Allen as a cashier who takes a gig 'fronting' for a blacklisted writer. All goes well - until, ironically, he comes under the scrutiny of the committee himself...

This vicious poison pen letter to the movie business, starring Jack Palance as a huge film star who refuses to sign a new contract for big money, is adapted from Clifford Odets’ stage play, which many see as his plea for forgiveness after naming names for HUAC.

This classic sci fi thriller, which perfectly encapsulates the dark paranoia of the McCarthy era, stars Kevin McCarthy as Dr Miles Bennell, who has returned to his hometown to find that his friends and patients are strangely altered: they are emotionless and somehow inhuman and soulless.