Still finding its feet, this is the third ‘On, and pretty slight it is too, resorting to Joan Sims bending over whenever...
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...
“Mad! They’re all stark staring mad!” “Why have I been interrupted mid-tiffin?” “Rank stupidity!” “Fakir! Off!” Somewhere in the top five ‘Ons,...
Yep, it’s the iffy ‘hmm, let’s try and sell this series to the Yanks’ edition. Phil Silvers is as wasted as any...
Joining Bruce Beresford in Australia’s emergent wave of home-grown directing talent was Peter Weir, who made this immensely enjoyable low-budget sci-fi romp...
Virginia McKenna does her bit fighting those naughty Nazis by joining up with the SOE when her husband doesn’t come home. With...
We can’t find any decent info about this ’70s TV movie anywhere, despite it starring Ben ‘Smith and Jones’ Murphy and Lorne...
Featuring Oliver Ginandorange and Amanda Donowheremyclotheshavegone, of course, and we’d like to remind adolescent sceptics that loads of Nicholas Roeg’s proper films...
Hoorah! An excellent Stephen King adaptation (and there are four words that don’t often meet in the park) about a series of...
‘There’s a homosexual pancreas in the closet!’ Ah yes, here comes the inevitable Oh, Shit! It’s Jacques Rivette! billing, in which the...
Now here’s fun. High quality quiz show comedy with erudite smartarse Ronald Colman getting sacked from megalomaniac Vincent Price’s soap company before...
“You Can Expect The Unexpected When They Play ‘Charade'”. Stanley Donen’s masterful thriller in which George Kennedy and James Coburn chase a...
“The British are coming!” – Colin Welland, Academy Awards, 1981. “What we’ve actually given the audience is a very powerful laxative” –...
Walter Matthau is great is straight roles. We’ll bid The taking of Pelham 123 and raise you The Laughing Policeman as proof,...
Shelagh Delaney, faced with writer’s block after the dizzying success of A Taste of Honey, writes a play about a writer suffering...
Not one of the endless Charlie Chan features from the ’30s starring Warner Oland, worse luck (and there’s a clutch of former...
You have to feel sorry for men who became fathers of large families after 1950. They may well have fallen for the...
This film dates from 1949, yet ITV once showed it before midnight. Ha! Take that, dumbing down lobby! Not that this dramatisation...
In the year British television served up the mighty nuclear fallout frightener Threads, Hollywood rounded up some of its regulation twentysomething ‘teenagers’...
This black and white college Satanism third-stringer is of interest more historically than horrifically, being the first de facto horror production from...
The great down side of Elvis movies, of course, is that they take up valuable mid-afternoon slots where the likes of Carry...
Harryhausen’s effects swansong and a rather sorry end for the noble tradition of stop motion monsterism, it must be said. The Medusa’s...
So. Cleopatra, then. Well, well, well. Erm. Did you know it cost rather a lot of money to produce? Heh! Tum ti...
Let’s be honest here, now the thing’s out in the open for all to see at the push of a button, and...
It’s paddles up for Jose Ferrer, canoeing into Nazi-occupied Bordeaux for some wartime shipyard sabotage with Trevor Howard, Anthony Newley, Dora Bryan...
“When he pours, he reigns.” Groo. About as well thought out as that strapline here’s Tom Cruise as a cretinous, ungrateful little...
Another reminder that Michael Crichton books used to make half-decent films. Michael Douglas infiltrates a Boston hospital to find an organ-harvesting scheme...
Political predicaments at Richard Burton’s Papa Doc Posthouse in this reliable Graham Greene adap, with The Burt knocking a block booking from...
Boozy, spouse-bashing Vincent Price and Peter Lorre run an undertaking firm, but business is slow so when Shakespeare-quoting landlord Basil ‘The fish...
John Junkin accidentally writes "TITS" on a blackboard
Third of the four-strong (‘strong’? Hmm) Askwithian series, with yer cheeky protagonist and old Noggit Booth using a rather unconvincing driving school...
It’s everybody’s favourite Confessions film, this one. That is, among those who have favourite Confessions films. Jill Gascoigne! Rula Lenska! Star Knockers!...
“This is your life, Timmy Lea…” The original Confessions film, in the sense of the first of the series rather than noticeably...
In a film where John Wayne is acted off the screen by his fake ‘tache there’s not much to be had here....
Violence, budgetary strain and a set that looks like a ’70s shopping centre (actually the Milton Keynesian Century City studio complex) all...
Eligible Yank totty Liz Taylor falls for dashing soldier Robert ‘The Man with the perfect Profile’ Taylor (no relation, in fact we’re...
"I'VE NEVER SEEN SUCH BIG BALLS! AND I'M FROM CHICAGO!" I'M SORRY, WHAT?
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...
More crime capers, but this is serious blaxploitation fare, with a hamburger seller, a clotheshop owner, the obligatory loaded businessman and a...
Socialist auteur Ken Loach’s Cathy Come Home broke seven shades of new ground for reality-based crusading social drama. Decidedly un-socialist auteur Pete...
We only really ever watched this as junior film reviewers because Herman Munster was in it, and to be honest, he’s still...
Of the twenty-odd versions that have been made of this aristo-revenge chestnut, this is about the sixteenth, courtesy The Lord Thy Grade,...
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...
‘Flowers are smiling bright/Smiling for our delight…’ An ailing Charles ‘Charlie’ Chaplin takes an abysmal lurch into colour, directing Marlon Brando as...
Ageing, labcoated Dana ‘I seen ‘im! I seen ‘im!’ Andrews and plucky daughter Janette ‘Double Bunk’ Scott fail to mine ‘the untapped...
Not to be confused with the Doug McClure adventures, this is a grunt ‘n’ shove caveman flick, made soon after One Million...
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...
Ken Russell had a ‘quiet’ ’80s after the flopping of Altered States, which included this encounter between proz Kathleen Turner and priest...
Ken Russell makes a triumphant return to the silver screen with the usual raincoat-clad soft porn and neon shenanigans from that brief...
Excellent furry lunacy with the eponymous things darting about eating shit kickers left right and centre before being captured and confined to...
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