Studio calls in Willis ‘King Kong’ O’Brien to animate giant scorpions eating Mexico, then runs out of money halfway through and knocks...
Robert ‘electric toothbrushes’ Shaw stars in this tale of an Israeli agent setting out to prevent a dastardly terrorist plot to drop...
British soldier Anthony Steel falls for the daughter of Bedouin sheikh Andre Morell in this Rank potboiler with Donalds Sinden and Pleasence....
The Fifth Element it ain’t! Rutger Hauer draws ever closer to those sainted Guinness ads. We don’t care what anyone else says,...
Aloof, rouged and razor cheeked, a would-be heiress but instead reluctant makeshift Governess (Valerie Hobson) arrives at Claire estate to help run...
That’s it, Dave, always leave ’em wanting the toilet. This was the last Putt-related film to be released in the US, and...
“Henry’s tail shall be inviolate!” Rock Hudson’s talking about a horse here, lest the raised eyebrow of knowing innuendo seek to unsheathe...
‘It creeps! It crawls! It eats you alive!’ Steve McQueen stars in this ’50s Rowntree’s jelly-based horror of the sort that the...
It’s Tigon, a company better known for the rather good Witchfinder General, who dish up the low-budget horror this time. Robert ‘Compact’...
Supposedly cursed but really rather good early ’70s Hammer, with the bounteous Valerie ‘It Might as Well be String’ Leon to the...
This comic mish-mash of various Damon Runyan ’20s underworld stories was a fair-to-middling comedy hit in the ’50s, but this remake fell...
Quite apart from PC George Dixon being shot at the outset of this stalwart of British film – a career move of...
Roy Battersby and Tony Garnett got some cash from Bri to make this oddball bio-educational film based on a book by early...
Warner again, as an army officer coping with cantankerous Irish soldier Nicol ‘I can sing just like Al Bowlly!’ Williamson, a drunken...
Famously inept Culloden cringer with David Niven uncomfortable in the part, plus John ‘doomed’ Laurie, Henry Brightness’ Oscar, James “Mr Tebbs, you...
Shit on your mother!
Being the first ever bona fide Glam Rock Film. It’s an Apple Corps production, directed and produced by Ringo, for one, with...
Full-blown film version of Whack-O! (1956), which starred marvellously moustachioed Jimmy Edwards (massively bewhiskered as always to hide the plastic surgery he...
The inspiration for Mad Max, no less. A pubescent Don Johnson ambles across a barren wasteland with a haughty telepathic sheepdog, which...
A less well-loved entry in the canon, mainly because it’s a subtler, more downbeat affair than most, with Blockhead entering spelling bees,...
“More plausible now than it was in the late seventies,” reckons the Radio Times, barometer of international technological advancement. Gregory Peck, Sir...
The Franco-Italian brainchild of Dino de Laurentiiiiiiiiiis, wherein David Niven plays the criminal mastermind of a money train robbery carried out by...
Richard Burton swaps Liz Taylor for Barbara Rush, famed round these parts for being both Knight Rider’s mum *and* Magnum’s aunt. And...
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...
Some outmoded fluff from the auterical pen of Andrew Sinclair, who adapted his own kids’ book with Richard Warwick as the titular...
Robert Altman’s fourth proper film, and already he’s doing in-references to his old stuff! Hence here we get Hotlips Kellerman caught naked...
Bill ‘otter’ Travers looks for love in a, er, close-knit Hebridean community. The Scotch wryness of Gordon ‘Professionals’ Jackson, Annette ‘Foot’ Crosbie,...
It must have been frustrating for the makers of this WWII Rhineland stand-off flick. There you are, with a good (and reasonably...
You know how to whistle, don’t you? Sequelified as Return from the River Kwai, with Timothy Bottoms in attendance! Fortunately the second...
Ever felt this country was a bit like a big, knackered, corrupt old NHS hospital? Top left-wing master of despair Lindsay Anderson...
Walter Matthau is trying to pick off mob squealers with a rifle, but keeps getting interrupted by Jack Lemmon trying to kill...
Ches’s finest hour, worth catching for Michael Elphick’s immortal line ‘Got coppers rahnd me arse, enn oi!’ And to emphasise the Children’s...
Top bank holiday standby favourite easily belittled by the po-faced but the quality still shines through and it’s impossible not to love...
It may be a coupe, but it’s spacious where it counts!
Whenever you see Whoopi Goldberg being interviewed and treated like some sort of icon, it’s well to remember dross like this and...
Eric ‘I did the Rutles, that was me, I’m Eric Idle’ Idle presents this and, despite the no-doubt hilarious irony inherent in...
Once taboo-breaking, now just shrill French “don’t tell the mother-in-law you’re gay, dad” farce whose reputation rocketed a few years back when...
Eh? No colons? Why, it’s the original TVM! With Hotlips Swit instead of Gless. But no Detective LaGuardia, sadly, and we don’t...
Doris Day is a-comin’ on over the hill once again as the eponymous title character in this tale of her running her...
Miraculously shoddy Penthouse production scripted by a highly embarrassed Gore Vidal and directed by pretentious schlockmeister and top polishing product Tinto Brass....
Cyril McNiele’s WWI captain turned two-fisted gumshoe has enjoyed more celluloid incarnations than most, from silent outings under the short-lived Astra-National banner,...
Worth watching just to see Sid James play a Canadian. We shall now line up the other reasons to watch this film:...
Urk!
This rotten sub-Confession is the unlikely product of an unholy alliance between Hazel ‘Crossroads’ Adair and Kent “grapple fans” Walton, in which...
Robert Redford partakes of some fear and loathing on the ’72 campaign trail in this great pseudo-doc satire, with backup from Peter...
Oh dear, Richard Burton. And Marlon Brando, and Walter Matthau, and Charles Aznavour, and James Coburn… Most all the big names involved...
Magisterial wartime Archers semi-propagandist retelling of Chaucer – watch out for *that* falcon/spitfire shot that Kubrick purloined, and a young Charles Hawtrey,...
Top flight ’60s hairspray-based spying mish-mash, with Doris Day (in a variety of ‘swinging’ outfits and outsize round sunglasses – check) involved...
Gregory Peck here as Forrester’s schoolboy-amusingly-named naval hero coping manfully with the twin encumbrances of Napoleon’s fleet on his back and Richard...
Robert Ryan and Bill Fraser, together at last! There’s a distinct Saturday night serial flavour about this we reckon, if only because...
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