Maverick pop-art fantasy director Robert Fuest is let loose on Michael Moorcock's time-tripping novel of swinging psychosexual splother.
Clint steals Russian plane! Plane plugs into Clint’s brain! Plane looks extremely unconvincing in flight. But note how many British actors are...
‘Raaay! Lionel ‘Railway Children’ Jeffries invents Cavorite, enabling him to leisurely float to the moon in his conservatory, and get captured by...
Oh, the hype this generated at the time of its release, as you may recall. Isn’t Kevin Kline funny! No. Isn’t the...
A film of many alternative titles, sadly Sergio Leone: Let’s Get Silly isn’t one of them. Mexican Rod Steiger teams up with...
Daft Irwin Allenisation of an early Jules Verne story, with the motley likes of Red Buttons, Fabian (singing the rotten title song,...
Slade were the Daddies of the glam scene (just as Mud were the HP), so it's only fitting their sole cinematic foray...
He’s aliiiiiiive!
Compliance! As nippers, we were always amazed by how the big, silver, nut-shaped ship managed to look like it was floating so...
Wet exclamatory disaster second divisioner with Richard ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the’ Basehart, Robert ‘I Spy’ Culp, Leif ‘I Was Made...
Late ’80s adaptation of the Virginia Andrews teenage potboiler ‘much talked about in girls’ toilets’, according to one authoritative source, here tarted...
Early ’60s Elvisry with our man as the eldest son of a trailer trash family up against the Florida authorities. Songs include...
No doubt the boys and girls from Parrs Wood will be debating the best song in this happily ludicrous “let the kids...
Dirk Bogarde and Susan ‘Barretts of Wimpole Street’ Stephen are newlyweds in this Rings On Their Fingers-style romantic comedy with Thora Hird,...
Another hard-to-like ’70s Streisand screwball comedy, with Our Babs actually, let’s face it, Their Babs – as a wacky, motorbike-riding wife who...
Largely forgotten Thames sitcom by Harry ‘Bless This House’ Driver and Vince ‘Neighbour’ Powell with septuagenarians Irene ‘Fruitbat’ Handl and Wilfred ‘The...
It takes a bit of doing to make a film set during the Spanish Civil War and starring Gary Cooper boring, but...
The Queen Mother of science fiction films, with uncredited animation from Disney and rather cheekily credited co-writing from Shakespeare, plus turns from...
In this sequel to yer actual Guns of Navarone the plot revolves around the two leading characters from that film – Mallory and...
Factory foreman Clifford ‘ Stryker of the Yard’ Evans and soldiers Tommy Trinder and Gordon ‘Professionals’ Jackson liberate specialist machinery, children and...
Cameraman Jack Lemmon gets run over by a footballer. Crooked lawyer brother-in-law Walter Matthau seeks to capitalise on his minor injuries for...
Imagine a Venn diagram with three circles – mediocre comedies starring Goldie Hawn, mediocre comedies starring Chevy Chase, and mediocre comedies starring...
When another remake of this hitched up recently certain commentators were at pains to let us know how much more politically correct...
Anne ‘Petticoat Pirates’ Heywood and Sandy ‘Up the Down Staircase’ Dennis enjoy idyllic log cabin life wrestling playfully in the snow, until...
Iffy Hammer entry from that period when the original castles and crosses phase was beginning to tire, but they’d yet to discover...
Cushing’s back as the Baron, now almost totally mad with frustration at buggering up his past experiments, donning all-over facial bandaging, lopping...
Based loosely on the song, with Elvis as Johnny and Donna ‘Ellie Mae Clampett’ Douglas as Frankie, plus Harry ‘Sherman Potter’ Morgan....
James Caan and Alan Arkin are the title characters in this oh-so-’70’s (and not in a good way) crime caper as they...
Gene Hackman gets to do his actor’s actor thing in the celebrated cold turkey scene, which is lucky as there’s not that...
James Robertson Justice darts in and out of underground trains again while Gene ‘Loose Cannons’ Hackman tries manfully to catch up with...
Harold ‘arsehole to breakfast time’ Pinter fiddles with John Fowles’ Lyme Regis-visiting novel about novels and novelling, with the help of Meryl...
Oil baroness Jane Russell takes to Paris to search for a suitor in the first of several Howard Hughes-funded Russell pictures. The...
Dumped by EC, Amicus buy up the stories of esteemed horror scribe Ronald Chetwynd-Hayes, and create their masterpiece.
Burt ‘ulcer’ Lancaster and Deborah ‘Helensburgh’ Kerr canoodle on the beach and Frank ‘Cannonball Run II’ Sinatra spends his time trying to...
It’s Bond film number 2 and one of the best. On the plus side there’s SPECTRE, Col Klebb and her shoes, Robert...
More Jules Verne early space flight, with breathtakingly tiny models. Joseph Cotten creates a super explosive and blasts himself and arch rival...
Sometimes run under the alternate title The Runaways although the original name’s about as much fun as this emetic tale of two...
Thank the maker! Yes, it’s the Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon edition of the classic newspaper yarn. It fairly oozes class, too with Walter...
Galoots, poultroons and lollygaggers harp on about Kubrick ‘discovering’ top turn and only decent thing in this film R Lee Ermey, when...
Of a slightly different bent but still a genuinely massive picture, this adaptation of the smash hit musical farce is a truly...
Tarnished sequel to the over praised Westworld, with Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner (as ‘Socks’, no less) investigating a cloning conspiracy at...
Nothing to do with Dinenage asking Reg from Havant if he wants to ‘stick’ on 18, this is a caper comedy in...
Handy Bendy Kingsley fronts up the first of today’s biiiiiig Attenborough numbers with the help of James Fox, John ‘go screw yourself’...
Mob comedy supposedly based on the life of a real mafia boss, though to what extent we’ve no idea as it quickly...
The Gregson-Sheridan v. Moore-Kendall death race ’53, and possibly the nearest we’ve got to an It’s A Wonderful Life of our own,...
Omar Sharif does Mongol warlord and the inspiration for Python’s Attila The Hun Show is laid bare in this amusingly inept unepic...
Bill Travers goes from scrawny tenement child to muscle-bound, kilt-wearing Olympic champion, and learns a valuable lesson about where to aim your...
Always seems to do well in the “fondly remembered” stakes, does the TV version of G&M, which we reckon must be mainly...
Top quality swinging social comment, as a floppy Lynn Redgrave stumbles about in awe of loose and louche flatmate Charlotte Rampling, lusts...
Chuck ‘Tin Can Alley’ Connors brazenly dons the dubbin and Littleplum broken English to switch sides as the titular Apache. But never...
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