Fact is stranger than fiction in this story of how General Montgoonery is shielded by having a double sent in the opposite...
We know what you’re thinking. How does Christopher Lee’s enjoyably atmospheric Amicus reworking of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde link with Dr...
This Peter Sellers Jewish lawyer dropout comedy counted as satirical once upon a time but just counts as impishly cute now. Sellers...
Rum, stand-alone wartime comedy about a bunch of convalescents – colonel John Le Mesurier, one-handed Frenchman Gregoire ‘Crooks in Cloisters’ Aslan, romantic...
Shitty ’80s sci-fi spoof with a shitty ’80s sense of humour – space herpes, for God’s sake! Anjelica Huston and Spenser for...
Nice one, Arthur.
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,...
One of those actors we love even though we’re never sure whether they’re actually being any good or not, Nicol ‘Seven Percent’...
Any film with Patrick ‘Dr Plocostomos’ Macnee, Slim ‘Major Kong’ Pickens and David Carradine can’t be bad and, just to prove it,...
Jack Lemmon is great in this light-hearted tale of escaping from a drunken accidental marriage, as is Terry-Thomas as his butler. But...
Lauren Bacall rents a sumptuous uptown apartment and enlists Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable into a three-way gold digging manhunt in this...
We’ve had just about every other version of this tale and here’s the one we could easily have done without – a...
Not the Hammer production, or the pre-“let’s get silly” period Rathbone-Bruce original, but a mid-’80s version with Ian Richardson and Donald ‘Spooner’s...
Old, good, Hammer adaptation of the Holmes fave, with Peter Cushing and Andre ‘Quatermass’ Morell as the detecting duo, Christopher Lee as...
Not the Hammer one, not the Ian ‘couldn’t possibly’ Richardson one and definitely – thank the maker- not the Pete and Dud...
Swordfish!
Ralph ‘Dear John’ Bates deflects buxom wench Kate ‘Triangle’ O’Mara’s affections in order to bring a hotpants-clad Dave ‘Green Cross’ Prowse to...
In this elegantly deranged effort, turn-of-century palaeontologists Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing take a fossilised ape man via train from Peking to...
“The screen’s first full-length musical comedy cartoon” this Fleischer piece boasted. Hmmmm… wouldn’t that have been Snow White? Anyway, it’s quite good...
Alec Guinness personally took the blame for this commercial flop, having written the story of maverick modern artist Gulley Jimson for himself...
We don’t like Star trek much. Next Generation is alright but the rest is not much cop, we feel. We do, however,...
Not many films can make the viewer seethe with fury at injustice as much as this one can. The great Harry Andrews...
It’s a Disney movie, so banish all thoughts of underwear, slapping heads and stock film of fireworks before the adverts, although it...
Long-ranging Tudor Marriage Lines with, strangely, Keith ‘Captain Beaky’ Michell as the larger-than-life monarch, Donald ‘Perfectly’ Pleasence as Thomas Cromwell, Charlotte Rampling...
Gene Kelly gets behind the camera for this slightly wobbly tale of Babs Streisand out to ensnare grumpy demi-millionaire Walter Matthau (they...
Little Alan Ladd stars with Stanley Baker and Basil ‘Went The Day Well’ Sydney as he starts work on a whaler then...
The film about Audie Murphy, America’s most decorated WWII GI, which made him a star in his own right and lead to lots...
Pilot for the Mystery Movie strand everyone forgets. Richard Boone plays a western detective – not as in McCloud, but actually in...
Kris ‘Sunday Mornin’ Kristofferson proves once again that he can act a lot better then he can sing in this revisionist tale...
The career-sabotaging Monkees classic is basically a feature-length episode of the series, as if rewritten by some semi-politically aware UCLA critical theory...
Gene Wilder’s a one for doing dodgy sub-Mel Brooks pastiche comedies. We had Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, and now this affectionate, if...
“With a piece in his hand he takes on the man!” It’s gritty, it’s grainy, it’s good! Jimmy Cliff is the poor...
Woeful mid-’70s sexploitation shocker starring Linda ‘Shillingbury Tales’ Hayden as a secretary to demented author Udo ‘Vampires a specialty’ Kier who goes...
No, not the hard-boiled George C Scott vs. porn barons drama. It’s the ’70s tits-‘n’-sitcom-veterans parade, starring dreary ‘cult’ porn star Fiona...
Victor Spinetti’s practically made a career out of this seemingly ignoring the fact that every other character actor with a pulse was...
Harrison ‘good against remotes is one thing’ Ford packs up his spokeshave once and for all to play a Lesley-Anne Downe-fancying pilot...
Odd WWII comedy from the pens of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, by way of early (i.e. any good) Michael Winner,...
A happy helping of Niven as he stars as a raffish Englishman – natch – coming into the Irish estate of his...
This is more like it. Stylish and odd late-period Hammer fare, with Angharad ‘Poldark’ Rees as the daughter of the Gladstone bag-toting...
We got into the habit of raising our hopes for the year’s imported non-holiday, what with much ace Hammer and co. stuff...
Three exclamation marks in the title ought to give you a clue as to how good this biography of Chuck Berry is; and...
Gregory Peck leads explosive non-swimmer David Niven, Greek Anthonys Quinn and Quayle, Stanley ‘Helldrivers’ Baker, James Robertson ‘bleeding time’ Justice, Richard ‘recipe’...
Sort of the first (Paul Bartel’s cheapo, rubbish Cannonball came out the same year) and certainly the best (don’t cf The Cannonball...
The Fleischer brothers (Out of the Inkwell, Betty Boop, old school muttering Popeye) abandon their usual black and white rubbery fun for...
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...
George Peppard searches for the identity of a disfigured and memory-free espionage suspect, in a plot very similar to Who?, which came...
A murderous Alastair Sim takes centre stage in this thriller, but we’ve got our eye on the supporting cast – George ‘Hegarty...
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...
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...
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