The grimmest, bleakest, and most often misquoted Caine film of the lot gets a look-in for its peerless use of locations as...
Top flight Peckinpah caper in which Steve McQueen robs a bank under the watchful eye of sheriff Ben ‘will play grizzled cowboy...
Big boring American horror with the “prestige” likes of Fred Astaire and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. brought in to shore up a creaky...
Good but over-celebrated Ramis/Murray/Ackroyd/Moranis/Weaver/Hudson/Potts effects ‘n’ sarcasm sideshow. Watch for Casey Kasem while the Thompson Twins collect their royalties.
When he accepted the job of Head of Columbia Pictures David Puttnam, from the very start, was vocal in his dislike of...
Ah, Tyburn Productions, runt of the Brit-horror litter. They gave us Legend of the Werewolf, and this rather nicely done “something in...
The word “sweeping” could have been invented for this generation-spanning Texan cattle ‘n’ oil saga, if it hadn’t already been coined to...
Just an ordinary run of the mill day for Chief Inspector George Gideon – Jack Hawkins, that is – encompassing four murders, two...
Heidi – and that’s yer actual Heidi, up a mountain and all that – learns the true meanings of faith, hope and...
“There NEVER was a woman like Gilda” Anyway, trouble and strife down South America way with Rita ‘Shawshank’ Hayworth as the eponymous...
Concert films are, inevitably, pretty unrewarding spectacles. Iffy sound, endless crowd shots, migraine-inducing overuse of the zoom lens, and a sense of...
This has got to have the best soundtrack from any film ever made. Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane and...
Marianne Faithfull ditches Alain Delon, zips up a once-risqué leather jumpsuit and, er, rides aimlessly about continental Europe (and, more importantly, a...
We suppose they think if they spell it with a ‘Y’ more people will come. The second ever concert, this, from 1971,...
Any film featuring Norman ‘Simon Simon’ Rossington and a fire engine is, as we know, great value. Here he’s one of a...
Impoverished fourth MGM Marx outing, with a plot nicked wholesale off Laurel and Hardy’s Way Out West and a sad air of...
Betrothed Victorian maid Julie Christie and dandy Alan Bates conduct a clandestine affair via titular messenger Dominic Guard, who grows up to...
The poor man’s Jesus Christ Superstar is utterly ridiculous in every way – a Jesus who looks more like Jeremy Irons in...
From Butchers’, a charmingly stiff and uncertain “you’ve got to heat the pot”-style early rock ‘n’ roller, with Terry Dene belting out...
A couple of foreign productions helped the ailing Rank Film Productions expand their range in the ’70s, and hedge their bets with...
The Dinky Doos Revue (yes, it’s that sort of an affair) are a travelling theatre troupe on hard times, until a meeting...
We wonder how many films the two ginger twins who censor the news in this have appeared in either as, well, two...
Henry’s disabled brother gets to watch the spaghetti sauce for the umpteenth time in Scorcese’s Italian Cooking In 146 Minutes. Oh, and...
This Spielberg adventure fantasy was always one of those “they wouldn’t let me into Terminator” second choices at the cinema for kids...
Deep sea stop motion monster crock which used to suffer terribly in the ’80s when ITV interspersed it with the far superior...
This old clunker does admittedly feature a violent ape and Bela Lugosi as a bloodless butler, but the main stars, playing a...
James Garner wins all the races from Mon-AR-co to Monza in John Frankenheimer’s virtually plotless excuse to show lots of ’60s racing...
Love triangle with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum, included here as part of our ongoing Splitscreenwatch project – a four-way...
Blake Edwards pits old partners Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis against each other in a Wacky Races/Monte Carlo or Bust-style international jalopy...
Frankie Howerd takes his turn to look put-upon in charge of the usual ‘tearaways’. Not good, but better than the terrible ones...
William Goldman blamed the failure of his flying circus epic on the ‘unorthodox’ death of leading lady Susan Sarandon halfway through, but...
Bland slice of ’70s Transatlantic trash-glam. Jacqueline Bisset and Anthony Quinn play a former first lady and a Mediterranean shipping magnate in...
Here’s a rarity to relish! Sidney “St Trinian’s, St Trinian’s, our battle-cry” Gilliat directs and co-scripts a bizarre comedy-mystery, as, in a...
A murderous Alastair Sim takes centre stage in this thriller, but we’ve got our eye on the supporting cast – George ‘Hegarty...
A prime late ’60s chunk of sciffy crunk, with a combined US-Italian-Japanese production team conjuring up a green midget with flailing tentacles,...
We must admit, we find this piece of Cumbernauld schtick increasingly difficult to take. A film can be just too whimsical for...
We recall being offered the chance, on a friend’s birthday way back, to go and see a film at the ABC in...
George Peppard searches for the identity of a disfigured and memory-free espionage suspect, in a plot very similar to Who?, which came...
A film of two halves, this Walter Matthau middle-aged libido-com. On the one hand, it’s dated, lairy cobblers of the first water,...
Salt-of-Earth youngster Dickie Attenborough is packed off to a posh school with class conflict ensuing, as well as the first ever on-screen...
The Fleischer brothers (Out of the Inkwell, Betty Boop, old school muttering Popeye) abandon their usual black and white rubbery fun for...
Sort of the first (Paul Bartel’s cheapo, rubbish Cannonball came out the same year) and certainly the best (don’t cf The Cannonball...
Gregory Peck leads explosive non-swimmer David Niven, Greek Anthonys Quinn and Quayle, Stanley ‘Helldrivers’ Baker, James Robertson ‘bleeding time’ Justice, Richard ‘recipe’...
Three exclamation marks in the title ought to give you a clue as to how good this biography of Chuck Berry is; and...
We got into the habit of raising our hopes for the year’s imported non-holiday, what with much ace Hammer and co. stuff...
This is more like it. Stylish and odd late-period Hammer fare, with Angharad ‘Poldark’ Rees as the daughter of the Gladstone bag-toting...
Odd WWII comedy from the pens of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, by way of early (i.e. any good) Michael Winner,...
Harrison ‘good against remotes is one thing’ Ford packs up his spokeshave once and for all to play a Lesley-Anne Downe-fancying pilot...
It sounds like the result of an especially uninspired round of ‘making up composite rubbish digital TV channels down the pub’, but...
Treasurable Launder-Gilliat school hijinks from a play (previously televised by the Beeb, with a tiny Nigel Stock) by John ‘Kind Hearts’ Dighton,...
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