Post-Jaws and Close Encounters, Steven Spielberg emerged fresh from having ‘Wunderkind’ installed as a middle name to tackle a genre for which...
Once you get beyond the opening Pig in the Poke sequence – and that’s only worth watching because of the Blessed John...
Let’s put our sneaking affection for Chevy Chase aside for a moment and admit it – National Lampoon is rubbish, isn’t it?...
First – and, meaningless statement ahoy, best! – of Chevy Chase’s one-joke family road trips. That said, there’s still little to recommend...
Peter Finch has a mid-life crisis because he works in American telly and it’s all rubbish. Another of those films we keep...
‘Unofficial’ but still rather dull legal-loophole rehash of the not-that-good anyway Thunderball. There’s a bit of fun to be had with unfamiliar...
The best movie release of glam rock's annus mirrorballis of 1975 was this delirious sci-fi oddity.
Well, this gives us the measure of Columbia Pictures boss David Puttnam’s commitment to ‘family’ cinema. A Swedish co-prroduction based on the...
So bad they re-edited it twice. Martin Scorsese manfully attempted to revive the golden age of the Hollywood musical with a knockabout...
The Marx Brothers’ first MGM effort, derided by the dafter variety of Marx fan for the admittedly strenuous dramatic plot imposed by...
Once again, everyone save a few well-sheltered Californian teens and sinister boffins have been wiped out by the titular celestial encounter (they...
Directed by Jacques Tourneur with input from Ken ‘too many monitors’ Adam, this might have a none-too-great lead in Dana ‘confirmed alcoholic’...
Professor Peter Wyngarde destroys his wife’s occultish trinkets, with predictable ramifications. Odd horror from Anglo-Amalgamated, more usually at home with the black...
It’s Brando again, clad head to toe in slimming black and heading up a bungled attempt to kidnap Pamela Franklin, while Rita...
The proper Titanic film, of course, in which Kenneth More, Honor Blackman, Kenneth Griffith, David McCallum, Geoffrey ‘Catweazle’ Bayldon, Bee ‘are you...
Atoll K. Love Happy. Kook’s Tour. The history of comedy acts is littered with sad, misbegotten career sign-offs, and this Morecambe and...
With British portmanteau horror films down and out, the Americans somehow kept going, producing average stuff like Cat’s Eye (1985) and the...
Can we take this for granted, with your eyes over us? In this place, this wintry home, John Hurt knows there’s always...
Written, directed and produced by William Peter Blatty of Exorcist fame, this stars Stacey ‘Hammer’ Keach as a psychiatrist who comes to...
Actor Cornel Wilde mans the camera for this adaptation of John ‘Tripods’ Christopher’s grain shortage apocalypse, with Nigel Davenport leaving a doomed...
Metal fatigue on planes is the subject, but never mind that, feel the un-Hollywood quality of the characters’ names in this Nevil...
Not really very good farce with a load of bum books being sent to a Barclays Bank by mistake (Barclays Bank, rhyming...
Top Oz director Roger Donaldson warmed up for his US big break (Cocktail, of course) with this Pentagon thriller starring not only...
In 1976 James Bond was at the centre of a high-profile legal battle between franchise owner Cubby Broccoli and writer Kevin McClory,...
“Good ever-ning.” Ah, Alfie! The highbrow’s lowbrow, as hilariously studied by many a French film scholar, his every MacGuffin and mise-en-scene pulled...
Typically downbeat, slow and very, very long Werner Herzog treatment of the familiar silent Shreckfest, with Klaus Kinski as the oddly-toothed vampire,...
STAGE FARCE-derived punt at a 'racier' rival to the Carry On series with ironically appropriate umbrella title
While TW3 ruled the airwaves, Frederic Raphael wrote this nifty cross between Room at the Top (1959) and My Fair Lady (1964)....
Aka – wait for it – Carry On, Nurse On Wheels. Oh, yes. This Rogers/Thomas extra-currucular romp (it even has Norman Hudis...
Largely forgotten, thanks to a mystifying lack of commercial release on VHS, Beta or DVD. But should it be Certainly the cast...
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