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...
Based loosely on the song, with Elvis as Johnny and Donna ‘Ellie Mae Clampett’ Douglas as Frankie, plus Harry ‘Sherman Potter’ Morgan....
Iffy Hammer entry from that period when the original castles and crosses phase was beginning to tire, but they’d yet to discover...
Anne ‘Petticoat Pirates’ Heywood and Sandy ‘Up the Down Staircase’ Dennis enjoy idyllic log cabin life wrestling playfully in the snow, until...
Imagine a Venn diagram with three circles – mediocre comedies starring Goldie Hawn, mediocre comedies starring Chevy Chase, and mediocre comedies starring...
Cameraman Jack Lemmon gets run over by a footballer. Crooked lawyer brother-in-law Walter Matthau seeks to capitalise on his minor injuries for...
Factory foreman Clifford ‘ Stryker of the Yard’ Evans and soldiers Tommy Trinder and Gordon ‘Professionals’ Jackson liberate specialist machinery, children and...
In this sequel to yer actual Guns of Navarone the plot revolves around the two leading characters from that film – Mallory and...
The Queen Mother of science fiction films, with uncredited animation from Disney and rather cheekily credited co-writing from Shakespeare, plus turns from...
It takes a bit of doing to make a film set during the Spanish Civil War and starring Gary Cooper boring, but...
Largely forgotten Thames sitcom by Harry ‘Bless This House’ Driver and Vince ‘Neighbour’ Powell with septuagenarians Irene ‘Fruitbat’ Handl and Wilfred ‘The...
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...
Dirk Bogarde and Susan ‘Barretts of Wimpole Street’ Stephen are newlyweds in this Rings On Their Fingers-style romantic comedy with Thora Hird,...
No doubt the boys and girls from Parrs Wood will be debating the best song in this happily ludicrous “let the kids...
Early ’60s Elvisry with our man as the eldest son of a trailer trash family up against the Florida authorities. Songs include...
Wet exclamatory disaster second divisioner with Richard ‘Voyage to the Bottom of the’ Basehart, Robert ‘I Spy’ Culp, Leif ‘I Was Made...
Compliance! As nippers, we were always amazed by how the big, silver, nut-shaped ship managed to look like it was floating so...
Daft Irwin Allenisation of an early Jules Verne story, with the motley likes of Red Buttons, Fabian (singing the rotten title song,...
A film of many alternative titles, sadly Sergio Leone: Let’s Get Silly isn’t one of them. Mexican Rod Steiger teams up with...
Oh, the hype this generated at the time of its release, as you may recall. Isn’t Kevin Kline funny! No. Isn’t the...
‘Raaay! Lionel ‘Railway Children’ Jeffries invents Cavorite, enabling him to leisurely float to the moon in his conservatory, and get captured by...
Clint steals Russian plane! Plane plugs into Clint’s brain! Plane looks extremely unconvincing in flight. But note how many British actors are...
Kirk ‘snails’ Douglas is the captain of the Nimitz, a bloody great aircraft carrier which encounters a special effect (a laser light...
Of course, the bonus about “doing” a historical epic about the Boxer rebellion is that practically no-one will question the facts because...
Ropey, ‘troubled’, bizarre-in-the-worst-way last hurrah from Peter Sellers, who plays both Sax Rohmer’s titular mastermind (in latex make-up and corny accent) and...
Rather distasteful and utterly unfunny Whoopi Goldberg drugs ‘n’ vice “comedy”, with little of interest on screen unless the sight of such...
Donald ‘Perfectly’ Pleasance and Raquel ‘Legend of Walks Far Woman’ Welch are at cross purposes amongst the stringy antibodies in this inexplicably...
One of the last of the “golden era” soft-porn romps to feature past-it actors in desultory supporting roles, with Oliver Reed, Wilfrid...
Kevin Costner, Jason Robards’ son, the ‘scallywag’ character off of The Breakfast Club, and er, Jesse off of Nutriaman – the Copasaw...
Alan Parker’s slightly *too* zeitgeisty stage school fluff comes round again, and of course we prefer the series – OK, it was...
“A tale of urban reality”. It’s not like this round my bit of urban. Michael ‘nepotism’ Douglas stars as either a victim...
Epic chronicling of the last days of Marcus A (and not, y’know, *really* the fall of the Roman Empire at all), in...
Cushing’s back as the Baron, now almost totally mad with frustration at buggering up his past experiments, donning all-over facial bandaging, lopping...
Fankie and Deano pal about down Galveston way, setting up a riverboat casino and copping off with Ursula Andress and Anita Ekberg...
Undoubtedly the most revered of tonight’s uselessly scheduled triple bill, in which Roger Corman finally gets his finger out and does Poe...
Is there something inherently rubbish about the source material that makes just about every adaptation of the memoirs of this bullshitting Venetian...
Americo-Brito-Italian comedy by Neil Simon, wherein Peter Sellers, yet again as a criminal plotting an elaborate robbery, gets to try out endless...
Button-down sergeant George Peppard and wayward comrade Jan-Michael Vincent drive specially-constructed armoured cars across a post-nuclear wilderness of giant cockroaches to a...
In the year British television served up the mighty nuclear fallout frightener Threads, Hollywood rounded up some of its regulation twentysomething ‘teenagers’...
The inspiration for Mad Max, no less. A pubescent Don Johnson ambles across a barren wasteland with a haughty telepathic sheepdog, which...
Infamous in its never-completedness is this uber-ill-advised Euro-funded amplification of the maudlin, borderline-morbid aspects of Jerry Lewis’s slapschtick to their logical conclusion....
Oh dear, Richard Burton. And Marlon Brando, and Walter Matthau, and Charles Aznavour, and James Coburn… Most all the big names involved...
Marty Feldman's wardrobe supplied by Mr Fish.
A Ken ‘no, you’re meant to hold the cork with a tea towel and twist the bottle… oh, give it here’ Follett...
Good Old Anthony Shaffer, of Wicker Man and Sleuth fame, led a sort of double career-life as apart, from those cultish gems,...
Pre-Blazing Saddles western spoof (yep, another one) with John ‘Gomez’ Astin as the titular bandit, being pursued by Mickey Rooney and the...
Clint Eastwood may be the name above the title, but it’s Ruth Gordon as Ma and the legendary Black Widows that are...
Still holding out well after all these years, is Snake Plisken sent out by Lee ‘Nimble’ Van Cleef to save President Donald...
First – a-ha-hand best! – of Jim Varney’s slapstick simpleton cycle (although Ernest Goes To Jail does have some fantastic moments, “I...
Caesar and pals turn up in the past, our present which is of course now the past for all groups concerned but...
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