It’s a shit life in ’30s Hollywood as meek set designer Donald Sutherland falls in with extra Karen Black, in one of...
Infamous in its never-completedness is this uber-ill-advised Euro-funded amplification of the maudlin, borderline-morbid aspects of Jerry Lewis’s slapschtick to their logical conclusion....
Not the cheeriest of sci-fi films this, which is probably the way it should be. However, it does feature Leo McKern and...
Stanley Holloway leads a darts team on a trip to Boulogne. Basically another of those ‘Brits abroad’ ensemble comedies like San Ferry...
Ealing Studios assembled four of their finest directors to film five tales of supernatural creepiness, and in the process created what remains...
They like to recycle those titles, don’t they? Nothing to do with the Ealing work, this threesome from the Trilogy of Terror...
To be honest, if you wanted to make a horror film with Christopher Walken in, you could just sit him in a...
Yet another Michael Caine caper film, directed by Bryan Forbes, in which yer man cracks a safe full of diamonds in a...
Ralph Thomas, mastermind of the Doctor… comedy franchise, had dipped a toe into Cold War comedy with Hot Enough for June (1964),...
Bottom drawer Amicus fun, from a time (the mid-’60s) when they’d only had one portmanteau horror out, and indeed didn’t really see...
Was this Edgar ‘Mysteries’ Wallace adaptation the same one Richard O’Sullivan and Paula Wilcox tried to pretend they had seen in that...
Mind the doors!
Sylvester Stallone and David Carradine run over people for points in this tin pot action comedy which is neither as hilarious as...
Peter Jackson’s blue-shirted zombie comedy Bad Taste (1987) was, surprisingly, not the first sicko splatter flick to stumble out of New Zealand....
“I particularly like the way Natalie has used dried pasta and cotton wool to create this delightful picture of Christopher Walken’s head...
The original Curtis-Poitier prison-break-but-manacled-together number, well worth another look. Poitier is great but Bernie is the star here, we feel. It was...
Donald ‘the enigmatic’ Cammell comes out of Performance and hijacks this Dean R Koontz potboiler with sliced-up cinematography and Pearl and Dean...
Disembodied and/or possessed hands have been a staple of horror since day one, with your Mad Love, Hands of Orlac debauchery through...
Aka, would you believe it, Carry On TV. In some circles, at least. This is the second and best of the orthodontic...
The Fox of which this title speaks is of course General Rommel, this being the story of the his North African campaign,...
Alec Guinness’s incarnation of Father Brown, Chesterton’s ecclesiastical eavesdropper. Here the clerical copper’s on the trail of master art thief Peter Finch....
An adaptation of Dennis Wheatley’s novel starring the aforementioned Lee as the brilliantly named Duc de Richleu – they don’t make names...
When the newly restored version of this was screened – late night, natch – there was some overblown hoo-hah about the re-insertion...
Connery’s comeback caper, easily the best ‘non-serious’ Bond of the lot. It’s endearingly daft without being offensively stupid (yes, Moonraker, we’re looking...
We’ve never even heard of this comedy about a taxi driver’s monkey which holds secret plans for nuclear terrorist bomb making equipment,...
If ever a film has been reductively whittled away to one thirty-second sound bite with accompanying Total Film poster image, it’s this...
Charles Crichton-helmed poignancy set post-war when a boy adopted by a German couple is claimed by his mother whom they all thought...
Having graduated as a fully fledged doctor, and entirely cognoscent of what the bleeding time is, Dirk Bogarde launches himself as a...
Dirk Bogarde takes medical duty on a cruiser captained by James Robertson ‘bleeding time’ Justice, Brigitte Bardot, Joan Sims, Martin ‘Vogon captain’...
The fifth, Bogarde-less entry in the Thomas-Box franchise, with the distinct lack of Dirk somewhat offest by Joan Sims, Fenella Fielding, Alfie...
Not the best of the Sparrow-fests, but it’s got the best cast: James ‘bleeding time’ Robertson Justice, Dennis ‘brown ale’ Price, Leo...
Dirk Bogarde gets all Sparrowe-d up for the first time in the original ‘Doctor’ number ably assisted by the roll call of...
Nothing to do with the sainted House, but a rotten American assemblage of tenth-rate corn (most of which, such as the story...
Things really took off here, as Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg, trading under the name of Amicus Productions, moved away from...
The horror anthology is almost as old as cinema itself, originating in Germany with silent expressionist fare like Tales of Terror (1919)...
Dirk Bogarde is a talented but fast dying alcoholic rogue. Alastair Sim, Robert Morley and Felix Aylmer are the comedy quacks debating...
On election night, when Australia finally hopes to wave goodbye to twenty years of Conservative Ozzy rule, Socialist optimist Don decides to...
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...
Tigon’s film adaptation of Gerry ‘Cybermen’ Davis’s top flight BBC series profiling the trials and tribulations of government-appointed environmental watchdog, the Department...
More Jane Russell (and there’s always *more* of Jane Russell) but this time with Frank Sinatra, and as regular readers will be...
There’s really no denying it: this early (very early) Goons feature is bloody awful. Once you get past the excellent and very...
So Bette Midler and Richard Dreyfus are dead miserable in their Beverley Hills mansion with their neurotic kids, constant sunshine, tonnes of...
Silly to the point of self parody late period Hammer romp with Ralph Bates as the semi-eponymous physician imbibing a dodgy concoction...
Short order sequel to The Abominable, in which Vincent Price does just that, and naffs off with Vulnavia (a different one this...
In which it is established beyond doubt that the Doctor is a traditionally medically-qualified man with the surname Who, and that Skaro...
From that uncertain Hammer period after they’d run out of proper classics, but before they discovered kitsch meltdown with the likes of...
Hammer’s fourth Drac, minus Van Helsing, from that iffy period just after their initial ‘classic’ phase had begun to run out of...
That most benighted (and, indeed, be-knighted) of genres, fantasy may be all the rage for now but ’twas not always the way...
Largely forgotten (and buried on release) Dennis Potter imagining of a journey to ’30s New York by an ageing Alice Hargreaves, real-life...
Did this film inspire the Yorkshire Ripper? Erm, no, not really. Michael Caine’s sex-addict patient (Angie ‘Sgt Suzanne ‘Pepper’ Anderson’ Dickinson) gets...
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