A fantastic (ie well written, brilliantly made, and surprisingly level-headed) piece of wartime propaganda (which we always thought was courtesy The Archers,...
It’s a Mancunian Film Corporation production! Yes, the sainted John E Blakeley takes the helm as Jimmy Jewel and Ben Warris make...
Horror paperback editor Kenneth Connor and bookie Sid James are challenged by Donald Pleasence to spend a night in a haunted house...
Adam Faith searches for the Loch Ness monster (and, yes, sings the eponymous theme song) in the sort of fantasy comedy only...
A reunion of Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Peter O’Toole (and for added Casino Royale fanboy laffs, this also briefly features Richard...
A reasonable enough question for Peter ‘Airplane!’ Graves to ask, you might think, after a family picnic is somewhat spoilt by the...
You couldn’t throw a stick in a cinema during the ’60s and ’70s without a) getting done for common assault, and b)...
Robert ‘Monchichis’ Morse winds up in bed with Doris Day during a blackout, to the consternation of Patrick O’Neal, who gets his...
James ‘Shogun’ Clavell steps behind the camera for this swashbucksville epic tale of roistering thief-taker Jack Shepherd (that’s the character’s name, he’s...
Family fantasy wherein young boy invents magic remote control device which stops clocks, shuts off alarms and other stuff very reminiscent of...
Here at TVC Towers we are absolute, industrial strength, bathmat-festooning suckers for hypnosis in films. Hence even this much-of-a-muchness intriguer with Jose...
Wide-eyed girl (Hayley ‘That Darn Cat!’ Mills) discovers obvious non-Christ (Alan ‘Once Upon a Tractor’ Bates) to consternation of dad (Bernard ‘Dangerous...
‘All because the hostages love…’ This old SAS chestnut would be far better, we feel, if reimagined by Tony ‘Who Dares Wins’...
All-star, pan-European murder mystery comedy in which the whole of Interpol find themselves asking… ah, you’re ahead of us. Central to the...
After accidentally losing 50 grand down the waste disposal, US mint employee Jim Hutton looks to make up the deficit by breaking...
Released in some parts as ‘Slammer’ apparently, the tagline on the posters to this ’87 Madonna-fest ran “A Funny Thing Happened On...
As parodied in the Blackadder the Third episode Amy and Amiability, where Miranda Richardson is the highwaywoman, this 1940s film starring the...
We'll divide the acting honours equally between Lee's languid lord and Woodward's uptight Christian copper (sorry, Britt),
Blake Edwards does a western – straight, and with a host of generic reliables on hand – William ‘Wild Bunch’ Holden, Ryan...
Ex-Warners animator Frank ‘Babitt and Catstello’ Tashlin reunites with Jayne Mansfield a year after The Girl Can’t Help It employing basically the...
The premise of this tremendous fantasy fare is a bit shaky and the finale is a bit of a let down, but on...
Slightly dark and a little weird but really pretty good; more Bourneville than Dairy Milk, then, if you’ll pardon the screamingly obvious...
Sean Connery as James Bond the secret agent? Indubitably. As Malone the Chicago cop? Certainly. As Marko Ramius the submarine captain? Fair enough....
Brad Dourif (where hell he now?) sets up his own church in one of those impenetrable melodramas they call ‘Southern Gothic’, although...
A beautifully atmospheric piece of historical horror, the peak of the all-too-short career of director Michael Reeves, whose intention was to make...
Harrison Ford gets milking in this often-scheduled Amish thriller, which allows us once again to ponder exactly how Kelly McGillis, here still...
A late run-out for Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes, but a good’un nonetheless. A rich gentleman with a predilection for picking up young women...
Crummy Gene Wilder warhorse and be amazed at how famous Kelly le Brock once was. Best thing about it – the video...
In cahoots with the sainted Dame Wimbledon, Elizabeth Beresford, Lionel Jeffries cooks up an overblown eco-disaster plot, drafts in the agreeable pairing...
Poor and rather incoherent Cliff and The Shads film in which the boys (plus Susan Hampshire and the inevitable Una Stubbs and...
Cinerama-smattered portmanteau collection of fairy tale sketches, here no doubt cropped and/or squeezed something rotten and thus rendered practically pointless. For those...
And after all…
Cilla Black pushes a pram full of magic mushrooms round an exploding power station.
It’s the battle of the vaguely iffy Oriental films this afternoon, it seems, and if it came to a toss-up we’d plump...
Vintage early Sellers crime comedy with Pete in cockney mode about a gang of copper-impersonating undercover robbers robbing robbed loot from real...
The definitive Sunday afternoon film, equally ideal for our patented ‘timing the Sunday roast by Sir Rich Ralphardson’s antics’ scheme, or a...
Never let it be said these films don’t aim high for their sources of inspiration. Greek mythology and Coleridge combine in this...
If Denis Norden walked in with a clipboard after each grisly death and announced that our next gorefest involves Peter Sellers in...
Pan-European schmutz focussing on the titular vintage ’30s Roller, a sporting Rex Harrison losing a feather-hatted Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine in Yootha...
Well-worn and (whisper it) not great animated chestnut. We’ve said it many times, but there’s more wit and invention in The Rutles’...
Naive young librarian rejects wholesome advances of Karen ‘Easy Rider’ Black for kinky dominatrix Elizabeth ‘Mrs. Frisbee off of The Secret of...
This was the original Cliffilm of course, with the kids out to make sure their youth club doesn’t get knocked down to...
Antonioni, Primal Scream, *that* bridge… Apparently, this anti-American countercultural plodder had strong psychological effects on those involved – apparently every time you...
Semi-clad female aliens cavort in and out of increasingly outlandish Pop Art sets. It’s a capsule description of well-loved Jane Fonda camp-out...
Holiday stand-by and endlessly repeated as this may be, but it still is really very good. Jack Hawkins is splendid as the...
Needless sequel to the original which has Burt Lancaster, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, Christopher Cazenove, Bob Hoskins (who manage to take on...
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