“I am Ergo the Magnificent: short in stature, tall in power, narrow of purpose and wide of vision!” So sayeth the great...
We suspect Jerry Lewis agreed to appear in this just so he could associate himself with the title in at least some...
Honorary Scotsmen Peter “mad as hell” Finch and James ‘Danno’ MacArthur are on the run from the English in this blacker-than-usual Disney...
Quick! Remember back in 1998 when you taped Castle Keep off Channel Five, and stored the tape safely away vowing “one day,...
Underrated.
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...
Stanley Kramer’s accessible account of the war trials. “Ah, but can an event of such enormity be made accessible without recourse to...
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...
Cast your mind back – if you will – and try to recall if you can how big a hit Romancing the...
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...
Unlikely son of Roy Scheider Dennis ‘Enemy Mine’ Quaid teams up with Sea Life Centre owner Louis ‘Enemy Mine’ Gosset Jr to...
Schneider is back! Back! Back! As is yer fish. Quite a neatly-turned sequel as it goes, but who wants a sequel to...
Roll out the barrel!
Some rubbish about a fish (inedible).
Last of the Gainsborough crinolines ‘n’ capes period melodramas, with Margaret Lockwood as a clairvoyant girl who inherits a manor. What they...
Whether or not the Reverend Sun Myung Moon was told by Jesus to fund an epic retelling of this pivotal moment in...
Peter Fonda and Keith Carradine hang out in Idaho’s imposingly barren National Park. They think it’s rather super. They gather a bunch...
OK-ish Maltese thriller with Mark Lester copping it after witnessing the assassination of an ambassador, and having to bring big sis Susan...
Tony Richardson and John Osborne may have gathered the glory with their ’60s version of Henry Fielding’s monstrous six-volume picaresque epic, but...
‘Put on lots of perfume, Miss Smith! Everywhere! I like it!’ Sellers comes up trumps as the titular sad case businessman trapping...
Socialist auteur Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home broke seven shades of new ground for reality-based crusading social drama. Decidedly un-socialist auteur Pete...
Some outmoded fluff from the auterical pen of Andrew Sinclair, who adapted his own kids’ book with Richard Warwick as the titular...
In which Brian ‘Avengers’ Clemens turns in what amounts to a proto-Thriller episode about two girls (Pamela Franklin and Michele Dotrice) on...
Betrothed Victorian maid Julie Christie and dandy Alan Bates conduct a clandestine affair via titular messenger Dominic Guard, who grows up to...
Experimental(ish) short(ish) film made for NBC telly but released over here in your actual fleapits. David Warner buys his fiancée and engagement...
Roy Battersby and Tony Garnett got some cash from Bri to make this oddball bio-educational film based on a book by early...
First out of the traps, and probably the most famous of the bunch, but still a bit of a flop, with Ray...
1977: producer Don Boyd, driving through America to get to the set of horse opera International Velvet, casts his eye at the...
Vanessa Redgrave certainly puts in the effort, hoof-wise, as titular prancer Isadora Duncan, but Melvyn Bragg’s all over the script like Wayne...
This is hardly the epitome of Swinging Britain, based as it is on a play from 1923. Carnaby Street military jacket purchasers...
Well, you can’t blame David Puttnam for this one. His predecessor in the job of head of Columbia Pictures, Guy McElwaine, had...
We won’t stop asking until someone gives us a satisfactory answer – what *was* it with ’80s Hollywood and the ’50s? More...
Bill Forsyth, chums, is ace. From the fantastic That Sinking Feeling (‘Don’t take the toilet bowls, those things can be traced.’) through...
Warner again, as an army officer coping with cantankerous Irish soldier Nicol ‘I can sing just like Al Bowlly!’ Williamson, a drunken...
That’s it, Dave, always leave ’em wanting the toilet. This was the last Putt-related film to be released in the US, and...
The Christopher Guest film no-one ever mentions! This is more like it. Kevin Bacon is a wet-behind-the-ears film student who wins some...
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...
Shelagh Delaney, faced with writer’s block after the dizzying success of A Taste of Honey, writes a play about a writer suffering...
‘Flowers are smiling bright/Smiling for our delight…’ An ailing Charles ‘Charlie’ Chaplin takes an abysmal lurch into colour, directing Marlon Brando as...
One of Gerald Thomas’ other films, this 1962 effort concerns an American firm thinking of planning to buy a British made passenger...
We read Michael Caine’s autobiography years ago when it came out and was big enough news to get him a spot on...
Famously, the original of this was an allegory for communism (well, apparently), reds under the bed and all that, but since that...
Eric and Ernie’s (here as “Ernie Sage”, ho-ho) first cinematic venture, made before they sealed their legend status at the Beeb, has...
Of the various lacklustre Pink Panther sequels – save for the good one, A Shot in the Dark – this is undoubtedly...
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...
A Carrie imitation with Shelley Winters, and possibly the worst title of any film, or even thing, ever.
Apart from furnishing Disneytime with clips that allowed you to go out and get another glass of ginger, there’s nothing much of...
United in our mind – for no adequately clear reason – in a trio with The Eagle Has Landed and Where Eagles...
Sylvia Sims used to say that she got paid £3,000 for starring in this film at the time but got £75,000 when...
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