Walter Matthau is trying to pick off mob squealers with a rifle, but keeps getting interrupted by Jack Lemmon trying to kill...
Robert Altman’s fourth proper film, and already he’s doing in-references to his old stuff! Hence here we get Hotlips Kellerman caught naked...
A less well-loved entry in the canon, mainly because it’s a subtler, more downbeat affair than most, with Blockhead entering spelling bees,...
Being the first ever bona fide Glam Rock Film. It’s an Apple Corps production, directed and produced by Ringo, for one, with...
“Henry’s tail shall be inviolate!” Rock Hudson’s talking about a horse here, lest the raised eyebrow of knowing innuendo seek to unsheathe...
Victor Mature’s circus is in financial trouble, but Red Buttons and a Niagara Falls publicity stunt come to the rescue. It’s taken...
Would you get Philip Saville in to direct a Denis Norden script about whoring? Philip ‘Both versions of Sir Gawain and the...
Bedridden dog nut Jennifer ‘I might invite you up sometime, if you bring your oxygen mask” Jones falls in love with poet...
Jack ‘The Sky’s the Limit’ Buchanan plays a thinly-disguised Jose ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ Ferrer, lousing up Astaire and Charisse’s fun musical with pretentious...
Bob Hope comedy with one hell of a contrived plot. Hope’s a bachelor (of the non-confirmed variety) who makes a living writing...
Over here, Cecil!
No one likes this film much, but we do, if only because it excitingly ties up two of our filmic obsessions –...
Ingmar Bergman doing funny is like Woody doing serious – he can manage it, but when he tries too hard at it,...
Ah, yet another slice of ’70s self-indulgence. Paul Mazursky, fresh from Bob and Carol and Ted and Alice success, follows it up...
The film of the book of the war! Struggling manfully to match the genius of the book this doesn’t quite make it...
During the shooting for this, Jacqueline Bisset used to spend some time gathering herself before filming to get her character right. This,...
Roy Scheider might well be advised to have a nice lie down here, as the all-singing, all-dancing, all-choreographing, all Lenny Bruce-biopic-editing, all-womanising,...
Eyepatch and cigarette holder-toting widowed matriarch Bette Davis dominates her three meek sons as one of them prepares to marry Sheila Hancock...
‘Come to the Asylum… to get killed!’ Robert Powell ignores this wise tagline as a trainee doctor at the titular establishment, asked...
Various old Ealing themes (Passport to Pimlico, Kind Hearts) are tied up in this late-period offering, with an unseaworthy Alec Guinness turning...
“Yes, I’m mainly known for my roles in films such as Blow Up, but I am also a quite accomplished television director,...
Hooray! Asterix on film; what could be better? Quite a lot, as it turns out, because what all Asterix films miss is...
From the panning on release to the fact that its terrestrial premiere took place on Channel 5, the world clearly had it...
Yes, we know its ‘Alien Cubed’ or whatever, but our database doesn’t allow such superscriptorial folderol to be perpetrated in headers, and...
‘We’re on our way!’ Dudley Moore does his (in retrospect now rather uncomfortable to watch) millionaire dipso routine once more. Liza Minnelli...
On the tarmac the joke is presented, “Those people down there look small enough to be ants,” the answer is proffered, “They...
Michael Denison and Dulcie Gray – the Leo and Kate of British films, albeit better spoken – star alongside Jack Hawkins in...
In between The Railway Children and Wombling Free – in quality terms as well as chronologically – Lionel ‘POSH’ Jeffries directed this...
The curio’s curio, this one. A Rank musical comedy wherein we have to take it on trust that a) Donald Sinden is...
We’ve always insisted this Jamy Cameron effort was better than the first Riddler Scott number and we’re sticking to our guns. We...
The only one in the series which doesn’t bring to mind a party of sullen Spanish school kids queueing at the Trocadero.
All the underage poacher-thwarting antics worthy of the initials CFF.
Joan Hickson being repeatedly injected in the arse!
What a fabulous, knockout scene!
The inspiration for everyone's favourite bollock-chopped 1990s numpty-rockers? Not bloody likely.
THE PLOT: It’s the Swinging Londons, and ex-pat American Ann Lake (Carol Lynley) goes to collect her four-year-old-daughter Bunny from nursery school....
THE PLOT: 38-year-old American writer of erotic fiction Scott Wardman (Charles Bronson) falls for a swinging 16-year-old London girl (Susan George). Big...
LA? Sex? Death? Commerce? War? It's Great Big Over-Ambitious 1960s Film Satire ahoy!
Liz Taylor is bored, Richard Burton is death, Noel Coward is waspish. In summary: quite frankly, bloody hell.
Terrence Rattigan, warhorse of West End French window theatre, makes the final stand for old fashioned sighs-'n'-string-sections melodrama in a big ensemble...
THE PLOT: Bill (David ‘Let’s Murder Vivaldi‘ Sumner) and Jean (Joan ‘The Love Box‘ Alcorn) are your archetypal middle class suburban marrieds...
THE PLOT: Er… can we get back to you on that one? We’ve always been fascinated by this film. Well, the idea...
Yes, JAWS was the original summer blockbuster with over 67 million Americans seeing it at the pictures, and certainly it was the...
We approach this film with not a little trepidation. After all the hubris we’ve spent the last four-odd years heaping on what,...
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