Inexplicably often lauded as a classic (presumably on the grounds that any ’80s sci-fi film that isn’t full of space battles must...
Lush cinematography, marvellous acting (in particular from Sylvia Kristel) and genuinely erotic scenes tastefully directed… Just Jaeckin! It’s the same badly dubbed,...
Kurt Russell managed to top even his ground-breaking portrayal of Dexter Riley in The Strongest Man In The World and made such...
We recall getting a pencil case (one of those plastic, compartmentalised ones with a built in tape measure) seemingly based around this...
The second in the self-generating ‘Apes series’ (see: cinematic terms onlt Roddy McDowall ever uses), this is top drawer weirdness, with James...
It may sound like a line of dialogue for Glyn Edwards in Minder, but is instead a Spencer Tracy starring adaptation of...
Never mind smuggling coke from Phil Spector, there are blatant scenes of irresponsible ‘standing up on the saddle’ in this well-worn road...
Try to ignore Peter Lawford and enjoy Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. ’40s MGM musicals aren’t really our bag but you can’t...
Also-also-ran ’50s sci-fi which has attained a kind of kitsch immortality due to a) having an amusingly meat-and-potatoes title, and b) Ray...
He’s aliiiiiiive!
A few films in this list have apocalyptic overtones, but Spike Milligan’s adapted play about the fragments of post-WWIII Britain restoring order...
From the chimes of Big Ben over the London Films sig at the beginning, to the closing notes of the barrel organ...
When another remake of this hitched up recently certain commentators were at pains to let us know how much more politically correct...
Drunkenness, bar-room brawling, death and love triangles may not be what most people expect from a Disney live-action feature, but they’re all...
Connery’s comeback caper, easily the best ‘non-serious’ Bond of the lot. It’s endearingly daft without being offensively stupid (yes, Moonraker, we’re looking...
It seems South London has forever existed on screen as a “gritty”, downbeat and generally pity-garnering backdrop for tales of poverty, crime...
We’ll take Messrs. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker as read here, because this unfairly maligned Airplane!-on-wheels is, to our mind, every bit as...
Your actual funny film, here.
Any film that tries to imbue the line, “I am the Shadout Mapes…[dramatic Pinteresque pause]…the housekeeper!” with meaning doesn’t really deserve to...
We’ve never forgiven this mid-period Disney feature for causing it very real and prolonged childhood trauma with the ‘pink elephants’ sequence (the...
A ’50s British comedy about bent turf accountants? With a character called Flash Harry? That’ll be Sid James, then. Also on hand...
Largely forgotten (and buried on release) Dennis Potter imagining of a journey to ’30s New York by an ageing Alice Hargreaves, real-life...
From that uncertain Hammer period after they’d run out of proper classics, but before they discovered kitsch meltdown with the likes of...
So Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfus are dead miserable in their Beverley Hills mansion with their neurotic kids, constant sunshine, tonnes of...
More Jane Russell (and there’s always *more* of Jane Russell) but this time with Frank Sinatra, and as regular readers will be...
Tigon’s film adaptation of Gerry ‘Cybermen’ Davis’s top flight BBC series profiling the trials and tribulations of government-appointed environmental watchdog, the Department...
Not the best of the Sparrow-fests, but it’s got the best cast: James ‘bleeding time’ Robertson Justice, Dennis ‘brown ale’ Price, Leo...
Dirk Bogarde takes medical duty on a cruiser captained by James Robertson ‘bleeding time’ Justice, Brigitte Bardot, Joan Sims, Martin ‘Vogon captain’...
Having graduated as a fully fledged doctor, and entirely cognoscent of what the bleeding time is, Dirk Bogarde launches himself as a...
Dirk Bogarde gets all Sparrowe-d up for the first time in the original ‘Doctor’ number ably assisted by the roll call of...
Silly to the point of self parody late period Hammer romp with Ralph Bates as the semi-eponymous physician imbibing a dodgy concoction...
Charles Crichton-helmed poignancy set post-war when a boy adopted by a German couple is claimed by his mother whom they all thought...
If ever a film has been reductively whittled away to one thirty-second sound bite with accompanying Total Film poster image, it’s this...
We’ve never even heard of this comedy about a taxi driver’s monkey which holds secret plans for nuclear terrorist bomb making equipment,...
When the newly restored version of this was screened – late night, natch – there was some overblown hoo-hah about the re-insertion...
An adaptation of Dennis Wheatley’s novel starring the aforementioned Lee as the brilliantly named Duc de Richleu – they don’t make names...
The Fox of which this title speaks is of course General Rommel, this being the story of the his North African campaign,...
The original Curtis-Poitier prison-break-but-manacled-together number, well worth another look. Poitier is great but Bernie is the star here, we feel. It was...
“I particularly like the way Natalie has used dried pasta and cotton wool to create this delightful picture of Christopher Walken’s head...
Was this Edgar ‘Mysteries’ Wallace adaptation the same one Richard O’Sullivan and Paula Wilcox tried to pretend they had seen in that...
Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine run over people for points in this tin pot action comedy which is neither as hilarious as...
To be honest, if you wanted to make a horror film with Christopher Walken in, you could just sit him in a...
Stanley Holloway leads a darts team on a trip to Boulogne. Basically another of those ‘Brits abroad’ ensemble comedies like San Ferry...
Not the cheeriest of sci-fi films this, which is probably the way it should be. However, it does feature Leo McKern and...
“The Great Love Story of The Great War”. Now, we always thought it was the First World War that got called the...
This story of wartime reminiscence amongst concert party veterans stars Terry-Thomas and Norman Wisdom, in what we reckon must have been his...
Bryanston Films, who gave us Saturday Night and Sunday Morning, A Taste of Honey and, even more excitingly, Double Bunk, as well...
We figure this film has inspired more lager adverts than any other, to whit that Carling Black Label one and, of course,...
Did this film inspire the Yorkshire Ripper? Erm, no, not really. Michael Caine’s sex-addict patient (Angie ‘Sgt Suzanne ‘Pepper’ Anderson’ Dickinson) gets...
Hammer’s fourth Drac, minus Van Helsing, from that iffy period just after their initial ‘classic’ phase had begun to run out of...
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