Yet another Michael Caine caper film, directed by Bryan Forbes, in which yer man cracks a safe full of diamonds in a...
Nothing to do with Dinenage asking Reg from Havant if he wants to ‘stick’ on 18, this is a caper comedy in...
All-girl heist comedy with Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin and Jessica Lange. Their lives variously made a misery by late ’70s galloping...
Audrey Hepburn enlists cat burglar Peter O’Toole to nick a statue from a museum before it’s revealed as a forgery. To be...
This overly convoluted but nonetheless heavily similar melodrama to The Wicked Lady, precedes said film by two years and is lauded as...
This will be your cue to go immediately home and watch Brief Encounter.
If Being There was worth an Oscar, this deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
At the risk of exploding the sitting-on-the-fence-o-meter, we have to say it was, ahem, a bit of a mixed bag, all told.
From the director of Francis the Talking Mule and starring the bloke who was shite beyond Micklewhite in the first two Quatermass...
Ever wondered what Teri Copley, bubbly dickhead blonde home help of diabolical bizarrely-paired-with-repeats-of-Porridge menage-a-cinq drearcom We Got It Made, did next? The...
The famously ‘deconstructionist’ film of the famously ‘deconstructionist’ Broadway revue, with Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson unable to throw crap at the...
Ya got trouble, reckons Robert Preston in this always-welcome vintage conman musical romp. Of course, Paul ‘Biiiilkoooo!’ Ford is in full voice...
Second installment of Hammer’s Cushing-fronted Universal copyright-dodging franchise, with the good doctor eluding the death sentence meted out to him by angry...
Hammer ring the horror changes on two fronts – swapping the usual indeterminate Carpathian locales for a Mediterranean feel, as the cast...
Would-be sequel to On The Town with three servicemen reuniting in New York for some TV special or other, older but wiser...
One of the more extraordinary things about this Alec Guinless feature, whereby his ineffectual and gormless character (Ho! Ho!) plans a five...
Black-and-white quarry-bound Cormania, with the titular monsters rendered in full-size, rather wobbly-pincered, lumbering fibreglass. It’s a thing, isn’t it, the life-size sci-fi...
James Garner is a Central Park amnesiac, waking up to identity confusion with only a pissed Angela Lansbury for guidance, forming the...
Fun if decidedly unoriginal melding of The Haunting and The Stone Tape, with scientific investigator Clive ‘Potsworth and Co.’ Revill leading a...
The presence of this old nutter-on-the-loose suspenser causes much mulling over the hot toddy of star Edward Mulhare’s singular career as the...
So Sinatra makes this fair-do thriller wherein he plays a would-be Presidential assassin who holes up in sheriff Sterling Hayden’s house to...
A sixties Sinatrum from the ‘well, that’s that, then’ post-Oscar freewheeling period, falling steadily, moderate or poor. Deborah Kerr and The Chairman...
We must admit, we find this piece of Cumbernauld schtick increasingly difficult to take. A film can be just too whimsical for...
Kooky, noisy ‘ain’t life crazy’ comedy with Charles Grodin as a stuffy school principal with an increasingly nutzo teacher wife who accepts...
Was William Hickey ever young? Like Alan Whicker and Cliff Michelmore he seems to have been privvy to the Fountain of Eternal...
Regular readers will know the problem we have with the cinematic genre most usually known as The Sort of Foreign Films You...
‘Potter plays – the hotter plays!’ Dennis’s second stab at the young-man-seduces-middle-aged-wife-of-trainspotter format after Schomoedipus, and his umpteenth stab at the young-man-drops-in-on-middle-aged-wife...
British soldier Anthony Steel falls for the daughter of Bedouin sheikh Andre Morell in this Rank potboiler with Donalds Sinden and Pleasence....
The (slightly) less silly of Richard ‘Superman’ Donner’s 1985 fantasies (the other being, natch, The Goonies) with Matthew Broderick on the run...
After the immaculate original Charade (OK, ‘original’ isn’t an entirely apposite word, but that non-stop mish-mash of the campier elements of North...
‘There’s a homosexual pancreas in the closet!’ Ah yes, here comes the inevitable Oh, Shit! It’s Jacques Rivette! billing, in which the...
Well, here was an idea that couldn’t lose – take 40-odd years of Rank comedy hits, chop ’em up, stick ’em all...
Nicked off an old Twilight Zone episode which in turn was nicked off old twisty chestnut An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge...
Buried up to her waist in shite in the name of Beckett, it’s… Felicity Kendall! Thus drawing ever closer the parallel we’ve...
The splendid Ronald Neame – of Poseidon Adventure, The Card and The Million Pound Note, amongst many others, fame – was responsible...
Non-horror portmanteau films: the jury shall forever remain out on them, as far as we’re concerned. Here bumbling Justice of the Peace...
Gad-flaming-zooks. Yes, as featured on Moviedrome on 29th May 1988 (while BBC1 was showing a That’s Life holiday special and Everyman –...
The smartarse Hollywood blockbuster you don't want to punch in the teeth.
David Mercer was a young writer from Wakefield who, in the days when such a thing was still possible, wrote a play...
The last of the Mancunian comedies, and fittingly the final vehicle for the corporation’s most charismatic stockholder, Frank Randle. Nothing if not...
Another Frank Randle stormer. He’s now in the centre of the dramatic plot, as a kindly old janitor going after a troubled...
A series of superficially threadbare army films enshrining the formidable talents of Lancashire music hall legend Frank Randle. Somewhere in England (1940),...
This demented costume romp combined spy and superhero in the form of Sir Reginald Hoover: suave, pipe-smoking criminologist ensconced in a secret...
In 1976 James Bond was at the centre of a high-profile legal battle between franchise owner Cubby Broccoli and writer Kevin McClory,...
It may sound tame with a Latin name, but - oooooOOOOOOOoooooh!
A sort of ’60s proto-Wicker Man set-up, in which Franch grandee David Niven tries to save his failing vineyard with a little...
Stallone in goal? How likely is it that any of the players would’ve given a toss that they might have won that...
Late ’80s adaptation of the Virginia Andrews teenage potboiler ‘much talked about in girls’ toilets’, according to one authoritative source, here tarted...
Of all the Jack the Ripper films that have been turned out over the years we must say this is one of...
Actual proper genius Ray Harryhausen is the real – only! – reason to watch this in fact, as his input constitutes really...
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