Dirk Bogarde is a talented but fast dying alcoholic rogue. Alastair Sim, Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer are the comedy quacks debating...
Short order sequel to The Abominable, in which Vincent Price does just that, and naffs off with Vulnavia (a different one this...
Alec Guinness’s incarnation of Father Brown, Chesterton’s ecclesiastical eavesdropper. Here the clerical copper’s on the trail of master art thief Peter Finch....
Donald ‘the enigmatic’ Cammell comes out of Performance and hijacks this Dean R Koontz potboiler with sliced-up cinematography and Pearl and Dean...
Bottom drawer Amicus fun, from a time (the mid-’60s) when they’d only had one portmanteau horror out, and indeed didn’t really see...
It’s a shit life in ’30s Hollywood as meek set designer Donald Sutherland falls in with extra Karen Black, in one of...
The Marx Brothers’ second MGM outing, this, very much in the mould of Opera format-wise, and subsequently talked down as its inferior...
Yay! The better of the two Cushing films, we say, with grim London-based apocalyptic violence, Ray Brooks and, of course, your very...
Now here’s fun. High quality quiz show comedy with erudite smartarse Ronald Colman getting sacked from megalomaniac Vincent Price’s soap company before...
Disembodied and/or possessed hands have been a staple of horror since day one, with your Mad Love, Hands of Orlac debauchery through...
In which it is established beyond doubt that the Doctor is a traditionally medically-qualified man with the surname Who, and that Skaro...
Mind the doors!
Gawd. Now there are no more clips to raid, Edwards finds he has to think fast (the simpler option of just not...
Polanski’s bizarre comic psychodrama, with a cross-dressing Donald ‘perfectly’ Pleasence and Catherine Deneuve’s big sister as the original odd couple whose remote...
This was the first Stephen King book (as well as the first paperback with an embossed cover – classy!) Creamguide (films) ever...
Surfing movie from what the TVT defines as “the late, lamented seventies”. Assorted Californians fall in the water to the soundtrack of...
It’s laughs galore in this true tale of Lindy Chamberlain whose baby was taken during the night by wild dingo’s in the...
Contrived bobbins which is fairly preposterous from the opening shot containing the gag about him fishing with dynamite in New York harbour...
It must be a source of eternal embarrassment for staid Old Salopian Richard Ingrams that Private Eye, via Barry Humphries and Nick...
Excellent furry lunacy with the eponymous things darting about eating shit kickers left right and centre before being captured and confined to...
Ken Russell had a ‘quiet’ ’80s after the flopping of Altered States, which included this encounter between proz Kathleen Turner and priest...
A title like that is asking for it really, isn’t it? Were this Alan Coren-era Punch, we’d feel compelled to conjure up...
Not to be confused with the Doug McClure adventures, this is a grunt ‘n’ shove caveman flick, made soon after One Million...
Ageing, labcoated Dana ‘I seen ‘im! I seen ‘im!’ Andrews and plucky daughter Janette ‘Double Bunk’ Scott fail to mine ‘the untapped...
Hammer’s back with the inevitable Ingrid Pitt bathing in virgin’s blood and donning tissue paper ‘n’ latex ‘old lady’ make-up as the...
We only really ever watched this as junior film reviewers because Herman Munster was in it, and to be honest, he’s still...
Another reminder that Michael Crichton books used to make half-decent films. Michael Douglas infiltrates a Boston hospital to find an organ-harvesting scheme...
Thrills, spills, action and adventure in this roller coaster of a movie…only joking! I’m being facetious of course as we believe they show...
In a film where John Wayne is acted off the screen by his fake ‘tache there’s not much to be had here....
“When he pours, he reigns.” Groo. About as well thought out as that strapline here’s Tom Cruise as a cretinous, ungrateful little...
It’s paddles up for Jose Ferrer, canoeing into Nazi-occupied Bordeaux for some wartime shipyard sabotage with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Dora Bryan...
Let’s be honest here, now the thing’s out in the open for all to see at the push of a button, and...
So. Cleopatra, then. Well, well, well. Erm. Did you know it cost rather a lot of money to produce? Heh! Tum ti...
Harryhausen’s effects swansong and a rather sorry end for the noble tradition of stop motion monsterism, it must be said. The Medusa’s...
The great down side of Elvis movies, of course, is that they take up valuable mid-afternoon slots where the likes of Carry...
This film dates from 1949, yet ITV once showed it before midnight. Ha! Take that, dumbing down lobby! Not that this dramatisation...
Walter Matthau is great is straight roles. We’ll bid The taking of Pelham 123 and raise you The Laughing Policeman as proof,...
“The British are coming!” – Colin Welland, Academy Awards, 1981. “What we’ve actually given the audience is a very powerful laxative” –...
“You Can Expect The Unexpected When They Play ‘Charade'”. Stanley Donen’s masterful thriller in which George Kennedy and James Coburn chase a...
Hoorah! An excellent Stephen King adaptation (and there are four words that don’t often meet in the park) about a series of...
Featuring Oliver Ginandorange and Amanda Donowheremyclotheshavegone, of course, and we’d like to remind adolescent sceptics that loads of Nicholas Roeg’s proper films...
We can’t find any decent info about this ’70s TV movie anywhere, despite it starring Ben ‘Smith and Jones’ Murphy and Lorne...
Virginia McKenna does her bit fighting those naughty Nazis by joining up with the SOE when her husband doesn’t come home. With...
Tip-top Nivenfest with our David as a war hero landed in court for falling behind with his expenses and turning to crime....
Grisly Michael Crichton novel iffily adapted by Blake Edwards, with James Coburn meandering through the title role as a murder-solving doctor. As...
If you’re going to make a horror film in the city, London’s the city to pick...
Let's not pussyfoot about: the best of the Carry Ons.
“Mad! They’re all stark staring mad!” “Why have I been interrupted mid-tiffin?” “Rank stupidity!” “Fakir! Off!” Somewhere in the top five ‘Ons,...
Still finding its feet, this is the third ‘On, and pretty slight it is too, resorting to Joan Sims bending over whenever...
The first ever instalment, of course, which means that a) it’s all in black and white, b) it’s all about doing national...
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