It must have been frustrating for the makers of this WWII Rhineland stand-off flick. There you are, with a good (and reasonably...
Bill ‘otter’ Travers looks for love in a, er, close-knit Hebridean community. The Scotch wryness of Gordon ‘Professionals’ Jackson, Annette ‘Foot’ Crosbie,...
Richard Burton swaps Liz Taylor for Barbara Rush, famed round these parts for being both Knight Rider’s mum *and* Magnum’s aunt. And...
“More plausible now than it was in the late seventies,” reckons the Radio Times, barometer of international technological advancement. Gregory Peck, Sir...
Famously inept Culloden cringer with David Niven uncomfortable in the part, plus John ‘doomed’ Laurie, Henry Brightness’ Oscar, James “Mr Tebbs, you...
Quite apart from PC George Dixon being shot at the outset of this stalwart of British film – a career move of...
It’s Tigon, a company better known for the rather good Witchfinder General, who dish up the low-budget horror this time. Robert ‘Compact’...
‘It creeps! It crawls! It eats you alive!’ Steve McQueen stars in this ’50s Rowntree’s jelly-based horror of the sort that the...
The Fifth Element it ain’t! Rutger Hauer draws ever closer to those sainted Guinness ads. We don’t care what anyone else says,...
Robert ‘electric toothbrushes’ Shaw stars in this tale of an Israeli agent setting out to prevent a dastardly terrorist plot to drop...
Studio calls in Willis ‘King Kong’ O’Brien to animate giant scorpions eating Mexico, then runs out of money halfway through and knocks...
Scoobyesque crime fighting with Jimmy Hanley as the meddling kid foiling Lionel Jeffries and others’ attempt to smuggle radioactive stuffs under cover...
Little Alan Ladd plays an English blacksmith. Yes, get that Disbelief Suspension ready for overdrive as he dresses up as the Black...
Wheeled out occasionally as a public service to prove that Jessica Tandy was in more than two films. Horror, though? We ask you…
Michael Caine finds there’s more than weak lemon drink in his flask in this ditzy sequel to The Ipcress File, directed with...
Jan-Michael ‘Stringfellow’ Vincent, Charlene ‘Lucy’ Tilton and Robert ‘Freddy’ Englund star in this surfing ‘n’ slacking spectacle. Time for a master class...
Jack Burton and the Pork Chop Express roll out once again in this cracking little piece of drivel with Pat Morita, James...
That’s Michael Winner’s The Big Sleep, before you get any bright ideas about reaching for that blank tape. Still, the ’70s UK...
Is it just us, or is Sid ‘n’ Babs’ flirting one of the more tiresome aspects of the mid-period ‘Ons? And this...
It’s a corker! With Gerald Thomas directing, Peter Rogers producing, Eric Rogers scoring and Talbot Rothwell writing, this is like an early...
The best theme tune ever written, with a film to accompany it.
Oh for those innocent days when the words “Tom Hanks” weren’t the verbal equivalent of a barbed wire fence around the cinema...
The Carry On Federation, or whatever they call themselves this week, rate this as one of the better of the black-and-whiters, though...
There have been many great dramatic works in recent years based on reversing the order of events – Memento, *that* Seinfeld episode…...
Currently being prosecuted under the Trades Descriptions Act in a double case with The Never Ending Story.
Talbot Rothwell packs it in to make way for Benny Hill writer Dave Freeman, who admittedly makes a pig’s ear of reheating...
Brian Dennehy is a cop who also writes books – which obviously aren’t very good or he wouldn’t still be on the...
A cinematic rehash, no less, of the mushroom gatherer’s toppermost sketches and songs up to 1974, so don’t expect the likes of...
Time took its toll on Chuck Heston and his reputation and suddenly it seemed that his stature was reduced from the level...
Bluffing campanologist Bing Crosby waves a selection of clapperless hand bells while shouting “A-ding! Ding!”, and gets perennially interrupted by Ingrid Bergman...
Oooh, ambiguity ahoy! Is he a gardener? Is he gay? Is he Stan Laurel? Is he Jesus? Is he – chortle –...
Stewart Granger plays the foppish clothes horse after Elizabeth Taylor, while period royalty Peter Ustinov and Robert Morley, not to mention Peter...
Stop motion legend Willis ‘King Kong’ O’Brien writes a pleasantly nutty film treatment about a Tyrannosaurus eating sheep in modern day Mexico....
Once again, Amicus Productions come through with the goods. After the splendid Vault of Horror comes their excellent, all-over-the-shop werewolf whodunit. Superfly...
‘Too much Jim Dale’ is the most searing criticism we can make of this first-of-the-medical-ones-in-colour but in mitigation it does have bags...
Benedict, Hatch and Greene get searching for that shining planet. Also featuring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jane Seymour, Ray Milland, the voice of Patrick...
If you’re ‘mad as hell’ that the Academy couldn’t be arsed to give Peter Finch the Oscar until after he died, you’ll...
We’ve had a statistician in this morning to help us plot the goodness of the Apes films on a little PowerPoint graph...
Eternally sloshing about the bum-end of the pantheon, Frankie Howerd reprises his …Doctor role as guest ‘Mad! They’re all mad!’ fish-out-of-water stooge...
Cheap and cheerful post-‘Wars space romp from the Roger Corman 2-a-day stable, with Robert Vaughn – who gets one of the best...
Proper, West-y Ward-y Batman, obviously, not that ’90s yuck. Romero, Meredith, Gorshin and Merriwether team up to hoover dehydrated UN delegates as...
We don’t care how many technical feats were achieved with the camera lenses and lighting, this is Kubrick Does Period Drama Starring...
Confusion may reign here. This US TV special from 1986 is a straight retelling of the legendary ringmaster’s career, as portrayed by...
Kurt ‘Tennis Shoes’ Russell helps out Harry ‘MASH’ Morgan’s ailing TV network by appointing a chimp as executive in this unusually (for...
If you look closely about two-thirds of the way through this film, just around the bit where Anita Pallenberg (with the voice...
The original ‘evil eight-year-old’ chiller adapted from the eponymous play, which has inspired Nick ‘Yea verily, I did see an ass with...
Don’t listen to the naysayers, this is still a cracking film and we like it much more than Part III ‘cos this...
Hooray! An ’80s TV version of Victor Herbert’s whimsical Yuletide operetta, just what we wanted! The version you’re thinking of starred Laurel...
Forget The Poseidon Adventure. Forget The Towering Inferno. Try to dimly recall William Shatner’s colliding train epic Disaster on the Coastliner. Then...
A poor MGM Marx Brothers affair.
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