Film Review (magazine)
ABC Film Review was a magazine which began regular releases in 1951 after a 1950 trial. The name was kept until April 1972, but by May 1972 was shortened to simply Film Review. The final issue came out December 2008. In the 1990s, it advertised itself as "Britain's longest-running film magazine" on the cover.
Background
It was originally tied in with ABC Cinemas. It was published by Associated British in association with Pathé and produced by Axtell Publications Ltd. of London, and at the outset the only credited contributor was James McCrossan.Cost
The 3-issue trial in 1950 was just 20 pages and cost three old pence. After the trial's success, it became a full monthly magazine from January 1951 costing 4d until December 1951.The price was increased in January 1952 to 6d and stayed at 6d until August 1968, which was a complete run except for the issues for August and September, 1959, which were not published owing to a national printers' strike in the UK that summer. Price from September 1968 was 9d until September 1970, when decimalisation was approaching, and the price changed to one shilling in October 1970. The price changed again in May 1972, when it increased to 10p. At this time, the name changed to just Film Review; the ABC was dropped from then on. It continued to appear as a monthly magazine until 2008. The next-to-last edition, a double-issue, number 699/700, for August/September 2008, edited by Nikki Baughan, had 220 pages and was priced at £4.99.