We recall being offered the chance, on a friend’s birthday way back, to go and see a film at the ABC in...
Ill-fated attempt at creating a sort of amphibious counterpart to Modesty Blaise
Dudley Moore is subjected to more indignities with this uncalled-for film so dire there’s no humour to be had in its shortcomings....
Slightly dark and a little weird but really pretty good; more Bourneville than Dairy Milk, then, if you’ll pardon the screamingly obvious...
“Evening, cock!” No surprise to see this touted as The Best of the Bunch, usually by the same people who bestowed that...
Hazel O’Connor’s Kate, a feisty, 25 year-old ambitious siren who tries to keep it real by attempting to eschew the greedy record...
When Ben Elton revealed to the world he'd created a rock muscial by taking loads of Queen songs, sticking them together and...
Ever felt this country was a bit like a big, knackered, corrupt old NHS hospital? Top left-wing master of despair Lindsay Anderson...
Maverick pop-art fantasy director Robert Fuest is let loose on Michael Moorcock's time-tripping novel of swinging psychosexual splother.
STAGE FARCE-derived punt at a 'racier' rival to the Carry On series with ironically appropriate umbrella title
A celebration of London and friendship gets off to a slow, stiff-upper-lipped start
The only thing The Omen ever claimed to be was silly, fun and scary. A mission it accomplished with frightening ease.
FATHER ABRAHAM-predating joust for international recognition
A GREAT big, sprawling, ill-disciplined countercultural satire adapted by Terry Southern and Joe McGrath from Southern’s own novel, this is possibly the...
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1970, and voters face an unedifying choice between a tired old Labour government and a slightly prannyish Tory challenger in a political...
The Franco-Italian brainchild of Dino de Laurentiiiiiiiiiis, wherein David Niven plays the criminal mastermind of a money train robbery carried out by...
5C’s well-meaning and liberal form teacher has his work cut out convincing senior teaching staff that his form won’t cock around too...
They entertained a generation of snot-fuelled youngsters in post-war fleapits, and subsequent generations via the medium of summer holiday telly.
With astonishing rapidity, not to mention alarming ferocity, Hollywood took the release of Dr No as the starting pistol to a silly...
Look out chaps, it's one of those portmanteau comedy jobbies.
The best movie release of glam rock's annus mirrorballis of 1975 was this delirious sci-fi oddity.
Bill Cosby + millions = funny! Er, well...
There are few things on this blowsy Earth as good as an on-form Peter Ustinov film, and this computerised caper comedy's as...
On election night, when Australia finally hopes to wave goodbye to twenty years of Conservative Ozzy rule, Socialist optimist Don decides to...
Vincent Price is a disfigured doctor, out to off the surgeons who bungled his late wife's operation in assorted arch manners based...
A strange premise for a horror film. What can be scary about a shout?
Dumped by EC, Amicus buy up the stories of esteemed horror scribe Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, and create their masterpiece.
Richard O’Brien’s minimalist pseudo-sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1976) stuck Brad and Janet in a world of small town domestic...
This Amicus portmanteau is crap. Everyone says so...
A mysterious private organisation promises luckless bankrupts and failures a completely new physical identity.
We'll divide the acting honours equally between Lee's languid lord and Woodward's uptight Christian copper (sorry, Britt),
Long before celebrity reality TV existed, the 50s saw a neat film idea in the form of following a celebrity couple as...
You have to feel sorry for men who became fathers of large families after 1950. They may well have fallen for the...
The toppermost triumphs of Termite Terrace.
Our pick of Porky and pals.
Our favourite member of the all-conquering Redgrave dynasty. Despite being born into the very top of the acting aristocracy, Lynn never quite...
Anyone who learns their trade off Alastair Sim is doing something right. It’s tempting to see George Cole’s as a career of...
We know what you’re thinking, so let’s get it out of the way – yes, Billy H will forever be associated by...
From pantomime elf to captain of the Compass Rose, Jack Hawkins was one of those actors who looked to the stage first,...
A man for all seasons, but preferably with grumpiness involved. Gord’s memory lives on via the Upstairs, Downstairs/Professionals telly double, for sure,...
Beyond the snug and cosy realm of The Cad – roguishly superior, yes, but in the end loveably trivial – there is...
Many fine film careers began with the smallest of parts in The Smallest Show on Earth, and Liz is no exception, rubbing...
It can’t have done an actor’s self esteem much good to be classed as a salaryman. Richard Todd was on the Rank...
Forever enshrined by the kind of bottom-feeding dimwits who compile pub quizzes as ‘Her off of Goldfinger – end of!’ (Bonus cretin...
The man who made Carry On swing! Sort of. Britain’s youngest professional stand-up, a hit parade star bridging the gap between Elvis...
Early bit parts in assorted Butcher’s tripe and playing a headachey wimp in The Italian Job might rank among the least auspicious...
Once, twice, thrice, four times a Matron of course, but to write off La Jacques as a comically predatory medical chubbster is...
There can be few people left on Earth who don’t know the gentleman’s gentleman came from a working class London family, but...
Refused entry to RADA, Essex girl Joan made a career out of character parts which celebrated the unvarnished, free-of-airs-and-graces side of life....
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