We know what you’re thinking. How does Christopher Lee’s enjoyably atmospheric Amicus reworking of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde link with Dr...
Sylvia Sims used to say that she got paid £3,000 for starring in this film at the time but got £75,000 when...
Shitty ’80s sci-fi spoof with a shitty ’80s sense of humour – space herpes, for God’s sake! Anjelica Huston and Spenser for...
United in our mind – for no adequately clear reason – in a trio with The Eagle Has Landed and Where Eagles...
Peter Fonda and Keith Carradine hang out in Idaho’s imposingly barren National Park. They think it’s rather super. They gather a bunch...
From the director of Francis the Talking Mule and starring the bloke who was shite beyond Micklewhite in the first two Quatermass...
Now ensconced in America, Marty Feldman turned at least one of his satirical eyes onto that country’s burgeoning evangelical movement. Feldman plays...
Whether or not the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was told by Jesus to fund an epic retelling of this pivotal moment in...
Apart from furnishing Disneytime with clips that allowed you to go out and get another glass of ginger, there’s nothing much of...
“I am Adolf Hitler, you *will* obey me! Hmph!” A lengthy showcase for Michael ‘Bronson’ Sheard’s fourth on-screen outing as the great...
Of course, our perverse in-house theory that the middle films in trilogies like these are all really great comes hopelessly unstuck with...
A Carrie imitation with Shelley Winters, and possibly the worst title of any film, or even thing, ever.
Ingrid Bergman runs a chiropodist’s-cum-pub in China, woos Curt Jurgens and spreads The Good Word in this serene period piece. Don’t be...
Chalk up another one for Sim (surely the star with most appearances in the list) as he plays the eponymous policeman in...
Of the various lacklustre Pink Panther sequels – save for the good one, A Shot in the Dark – this is undoubtedly...
Eric and Ernie’s (here as “Ernie Sage”, ho-ho) first cinematic venture, made before they sealed their legend status at the Beeb, has...
Famously, the original of this was an allegory for communism (well, apparently), reds under the bed and all that, but since that...
Rum, stand-alone wartime comedy about a bunch of convalescents – colonel John Le Mesurier, one-handed Frenchman Gregoire ‘Crooks in Cloisters’ Aslan, romantic...
We read Michael Caine’s autobiography years ago when it came out and was big enough news to get him a spot on...
One of Gerald Thomas’ other films, this 1962 effort concerns an American firm thinking of planning to buy a British made passenger...
Vanessa Redgrave certainly puts in the effort, hoof-wise, as titular prancer Isadora Duncan, but Melvyn Bragg’s all over the script like Wayne...
Well, you can’t blame David Puttnam for this one. His predecessor in the job of head of Columbia Pictures, Guy McElwaine, had...
Sinden does Disney, as the irksome Sir Anthony Ross, after his estranged whaling son in a French-built pointy airship, but discovering a...
A taut (and especially so around the budgetary purse-strings) little tale from Planet Films (the company which Mancunian Films turned into at...
Would-be sequel to On The Town with three servicemen reuniting in New York for some TV special or other, older but wiser...
The last of the Mancunian comedies, and fittingly the final vehicle for the corporation’s most charismatic stockholder, Frank Randle. Nothing if not...
John Mills is the music teacher who gets the kids in the orchestra to play that some of the ‘jitterbug’ style modern...
Actual proper genius Ray Harryhausen is the real – only! – reason to watch this in fact, as his input constitutes really...
Last of the Gainsborough crinolines ‘n’ capes period melodramas, with Margaret Lockwood as a clairvoyant girl who inherits a manor. What they...
Some rubbish about a fish (inedible).
Schneider is back! Back! Back! As is yer fish. Quite a neatly-turned sequel as it goes, but who wants a sequel to...
Unlikely son of Roy Scheider Dennis ‘Enemy Mine’ Quaid teams up with Sea Life Centre owner Louis ‘Enemy Mine’ Gosset Jr to...
Steve Martin’s Optigrip-inventing, Thermos-picking idiot savant is all fine and dandy, but whatever happened to his old SNL buddy Earl Stevens’ Poodleman...
Cast your mind back – if you will – and try to recall if you can how big a hit Romancing the...
This isn’t the Cushing/McClure Edgar Rice Burroughs adaptation At The Earth’s Core (the one with those pterodactyl things that made a backwards...
Arthouse takes on punk! Derek Jarman got endless stick from the likes of Siouxsie Sioux and Vivienne Westwood over this spit-drainingly pretentious...
Stanley Kramer’s accessible account of the war trials. “Ah, but can an event of such enormity be made accessible without recourse to...
Roll out the barrel!
Floundering Victorian sci-fi comedy in which the effects of Les ‘Vampire Circus’ Bowie vie with Dennis Price’s weird northern accent, as Burl...
Piss-poor Whoopi Goldberg comedy with no actual jokes to speak of, but, going some way to make up, Jonathan Pryce, Tracey Ullman,...
Frankie Howerd plays – oh yes! – Willie Joy, owner of a feckless greyhound which can’t race, but lands him in a...
Underrated.
‘You think you can rely on that crane crap again?’ Well said, faceless stock baddie! The main thing that’s prevented us from...
Quick! Remember back in 1998 when you taped Castle Keep off Channel Five, and stored the tape safely away vowing “one day,...
Honorary Scotsmen Peter “mad as hell” Finch and James ‘Danno’ MacArthur are on the run from the English in this blacker-than-usual Disney...
Another in the annals (yep, we double-checked the spelling there) of top behind-the-scenes folk coming a cropper in the director’s chair. Here...
While Bryan Forbes was head of EMI-Elstree, he did his own little bit, in a rather naive way, to help the workers....
Imagine the disappointment kids felt on seeing this ’70s remake from the stable of Dino DeLaurentiis, the well-known typing error. “Life-size King...
In which Dino DeLaurentiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis singularly fails to learn his lesson. It seems the big fella didn’t die at the end of the...
We suspect Jerry Lewis agreed to appear in this just so he could associate himself with the title in at least some...
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