War – or rather anti-war – propaganda from Powell (this time with Pressburger) and a story of a U-Boat landing in Canada...
More Irish stereotypes on parade here but in such affectionate fashion that it hardly matters. John Ford’s homage to rural Ireland may...
Chalk up another one for Sim (surely the star with most appearances in the list) as he plays the eponymous policeman in...
Apart from his Brooksfilms collaborations, Marty Feldman didn’t score very big with his big screen outings. Between the decidedly shaky The Adventures...
A beautifully atmospheric piece of historical horror, the peak of the all-too-short career of director Michael Reeves, whose intention was to make...
Russian answer to 2001, and much better than Kubrick’s overpraised sketch show, to boot, we say. Three cosmonauts orbit a sentient watery...
Low-budget 1971 British film about a “sinister and menacing” (albeit middle-class) motorcycle gang called ‘The Living Dead’ who terrorise and wreak early...
As parodied in the Blackadder the Third episode Amy and Amiability, where Miranda Richardson is the highwaywoman, this 1940s film starring the...
Practically everything the genteelly unhinged Vivian Stanshall did lends itself to untold repeated scrutiny – we only just noticed the other day...
Two generations of comedy collide in this masterful Whitehall-farce-meets-sexcom period piece, adapted from a stage play, but the cinematic rendition has to...
Black, black, black is the colour of this comedy from Scorsese – his only entry in the list, and one from his...
A good old fashioned tale of, well, falling in love. Nothing much else happens in this movie – in fact nothing much...
The best thing about these film versions of sitcoms is that the plots seldom bear much similarity to the “sit” of the...
Needless sequel to the original which has Burt Lancaster, Denholm Elliott, Peter Vaughan, Christopher Cazenove, Bob Hoskins (who manage to take on...
Holiday stand-by and endlessly repeated as this may be, but it still is really very good. Jack Hawkins is splendid as the...
Semi-clad female aliens cavort in and out of increasingly outlandish Pop Art sets. It’s a capsule description of well-loved Jane Fonda camp-out...
Antonioni, Primal Scream, *that* bridge… Apparently, this anti-American countercultural plodder had strong psychological effects on those involved – apparently every time you...
This was the original Cliffilm of course, with the kids out to make sure their youth club doesn’t get knocked down to...
Naive young librarian rejects wholesome advances of Karen ‘Easy Rider’ Black for kinky dominatrix Elizabeth ‘Mrs. Frisbee off of The Secret of...
Pan-European schmutz focussing on the titular vintage ’30s Roller, a sporting Rex Harrison losing a feather-hatted Jeanne Moreau, Shirley MacLaine in Yootha...
Well-worn and (whisper it) not great animated chestnut. We’ve said it many times, but there’s more wit and invention in The Rutles’...
Never let it be said these films don’t aim high for their sources of inspiration. Greek mythology and Coleridge combine in this...
Kiwi director Geoff Murphy started out self-funding his own spare-time productions on 16mm. Early efforts included action comedy Tankbusters and Uenuku, the...
Cilla Black pushes a pram full of magic mushrooms round an exploding power station.
In cahoots with the sainted Dame Wimbledon, Elizabeth Beresford, Lionel Jeffries cooks up an overblown eco-disaster plot, drafts in the agreeable pairing...
A reasonable enough question for Peter ‘Airplane!’ Graves to ask, you might think, after a family picnic is somewhat spoilt by the...
Cinerama-smattered portmanteau collection of fairy tale sketches, here no doubt cropped and/or squeezed something rotten and thus rendered practically pointless. For those...
Brad Dourif (where hell he now?) sets up his own church in one of those impenetrable melodramas they call ‘Southern Gothic’, although...
Robert ‘Monchichis’ Morse winds up in bed with Doris Day during a blackout, to the consternation of Patrick O’Neal, who gets his...
You couldn’t throw a stick in a cinema during the ’60s and ’70s without a) getting done for common assault, and b)...
Adam Faith searches for the Loch Ness monster (and, yes, sings the eponymous theme song) in the sort of fantasy comedy only...
Vintage early Sellers crime comedy with Pete in cockney mode about a gang of copper-impersonating undercover robbers robbing robbed loot from real...
Crummy Gene Wilder warhorse and be amazed at how famous Kelly le Brock once was. Best thing about it – the video...
Poor and rather incoherent Cliff and The Shads film in which the boys (plus Susan Hampshire and the inevitable Una Stubbs and...
Harrison Ford gets milking in this often-scheduled Amish thriller, which allows us once again to ponder exactly how Kelly McGillis, here still...
Sean Connery as James Bond the secret agent? Indubitably. As Malone the Chicago cop? Certainly. As Marko Ramius the submarine captain? Fair enough....
The premise of this tremendous fantasy fare is a bit shaky and the finale is a bit of a let down, but on...
Ex-Warners animator Frank ‘Babitt and Catstello’ Tashlin reunites with Jayne Mansfield a year after The Girl Can’t Help It employing basically the...
Blake Edwards does a western – straight, and with a host of generic reliables on hand – William ‘Wild Bunch’ Holden, Ryan...
Released in some parts as ‘Slammer’ apparently, the tagline on the posters to this ’87 Madonna-fest ran “A Funny Thing Happened On...
‘All because the hostages love…’ This old SAS chestnut would be far better, we feel, if reimagined by Tony ‘Who Dares Wins’...
Wide-eyed girl (Hayley ‘That Darn Cat!’ Mills) discovers obvious non-Christ (Alan ‘Once Upon a Tractor’ Bates) to consternation of dad (Bernard ‘Dangerous...
Family fantasy wherein young boy invents magic remote control device which stops clocks, shuts off alarms and other stuff very reminiscent of...
A reunion of Woody Allen, Peter Sellers and Peter O’Toole (and for added Casino Royale fanboy laffs, this also briefly features Richard...
Now, we’ve never seen this and we don’t know why ‘cos it sounds tremendous. Starring David ‘Candleshoe’ Niven, Stanley ‘Albert’ Holloway, John...
And after all…
It seems to have a fair few fans but we don’t care, we don’t give a damn – this Clement/La Frenais ‘satire’...
Cyndi Lauper is a - cough - 'Small Medium at Large'
If we had a pound for every version of the old F Anstey body swap chestnut filmed over the years… Memories of...
In a recent Creamguide (Films) straw poll of saucy Mexican IRA comedy westerns, this came fairly near the top. Brigitte Bardot and...
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