Aka, er, Roommates. But this slight music college tale has Sid, Kenny, Jim Dale and Liz Fraser (plus Esma ‘Flo’ Cannon!), mixed...
Delightful load of complete bollocks not so much based on the hoary old Poe poem as crapped onto it from a great...
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 first film made by GTO records, under the aegis of one Ron Inkpen, who would produce a couple of real stormers...
This second John Cleese/Graham Chapman offering for David Frost’s Paradine Productions knocked its predecessor The Rise and Rise of Michael Rimmer’s satirical...
Arthouse? Yeah, maybe, but lest we forget, this was a Compton Films production, under the aegis of the great Tony Tenser, who’d...
Christopher Lee and Bette Davis (resembling EL Wisty and Beryl Reid respectively) take over from Ray Milland to go after supernatural kids...
Forever to be known, sadly, as ‘the film that killed Roy Kinnear’, Richard Lester’s belated third Muskefeature has none of the atmosphere...
We had never actually seen this until a couple of years ago and we must confess to having had serious doubts about...
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...
“Special delivery! A beumb! Were you expecting one?” Final Sellers outing with a string of limp ‘funny costume’ set pieces and Lom,...
Gentle tale of one man's psychologically questionable close tie with an otter set in the backdrop of a swoonsome Scottish village.
If you *must* watch a western, it might as well be a good ‘un. Tremendous frontier caper with John Wayne, Ward ‘Fargo’...
1970, and voters face an unedifying choice between a tired old Labour government and a slightly prannyish Tory challenger in a political...
Cocked-up beyond redemption film of the series. Say what you like about Porridge: The Movie, but at least that had Richard Beckinsale...
The first word of that title’s a strong clue as to what to expect here. Mikey off of The Goonies and two...
Odd little Roald Dahl-penned horror with Patricia Neal falling for disturbed maniac Nicholas ‘Excalibur’ Clay, who has a penchant for raping women...
Bob ‘rhyming slang’ Hope and Bing Crosby on the road again. In this sixth installment, we have a pair of divers and...
Belated final entry in Bing ‘n’ Bob’s diminishing returns series of screwball trips, this time with a more British cast list headed...
Bing, Bob and Dot (along with Anthony Quinn and Yvonne ‘Munsters’ DeCarlo) crack off with the third and best of their fourth-wall-breaking,...
The fifth Roderoo focuses on two familiar-looking carnival musicians stowing away to Brazil, rescuing an equally familiar-looking hypnotised would-be female suicide along...
The first of the Hope-Crosby-Lamour laff-ins. All good fun, though we do prefer Morocco, not to mention the seldom-shown mid-period entries in...
Whevever Dame Telly of Vision deigns to screen on of Bing ‘n’ Bob’s screwball messaround masterclasses, phones depart hooks nationwide. The fourth...
In the second of these Roady wiseacreages, our two upstanding heroes are a human cannonball and octopus wrestler, fleeing an African carnival...
James Garner tackles his first case as the eponymous Jim Rockford in this TV movie also starring Lindsay Wagner and Bill ‘Will’...
From a story by DH Lawrence, no less, this concerns a boy given a rocking horse who can then, whilst riding it,...
“Mumsie! Another royalty cheque’s arrived!” Richard O’Brien continues to live off his one successful theatrical venture, despite everyone in the world both...
The really dumb USA v. USSR instalment of the never-that-bright series, with Dolph Lundgren and, incongruously, James Brown as himself. We can...
So Eddy Grant did the theme to this, The Front Line, and (if we’re going to stretch a point) Fred Harris’ Electric...
Here you get a chance to relive that double-period English class when the big telly and Videostar were wheeled out for a...
The film adaptation of Peter Barnes’s labyrinthine stage comedy set in a rambling country estate takes a sledgehammer to the British aristocracy...
Will the migraine-inducing title sequence from Pablo ‘Bullitt’ Ferra merit an epilepsy warning? It bloody should. Still, make it past those intact,...
If we were the sort of TV guide that cared about the actual content of ’80s Hollywood films, we’d mention that this...
… of Peggy Mount, that is, in fine shouty matriarch fettle as Emma Hornett, one in the long line of, well, shouty...
The spy spoof genre's all about cinematic in-japery and self-indulgence, so how could it be complete without a visit from the Rat...
Dudley Moore is subjected to more indignities with this uncalled-for film so dire there’s no humour to be had in its shortcomings....
Hammer’s penultimate and Christopher Lee’s last caped catastrophe. We’re all for bringing the Count into the 20th century, if only to get...
They entertained a generation of snot-fuelled youngsters in post-war fleapits, and subsequent generations via the medium of summer holiday telly.
The main source of mirth with this being, of course, Martin Amis’ notorious dabbling in sci-fi scripting. Not sure if he was...
One of those long, turgid films made by Italian directors that could roughly be lumped under the banner ‘classical soft porn’, or...
Yes, Cuddly Ken Russell tackles the life of yet another Great Artist (though here it’s some sculptor we’ve never heard of, and...
Slight Alec Guinness mystery wherein He Who Hopes They Don’t Laugh plays a mild-mannered English teacher and his villainous aristocratic French double....
Anthony Andrews plays the Ffing toff liberator in this TV movie from the venerable London Films stable. Look out for Von Gelb...
In between ‘early promise’ of She’s Gotta Have It and the massive success of Do the Right Thing came Spike Lee’s obligatory...
Another Frank Randle stormer. He’s now in the centre of the dramatic plot, as a kindly old janitor going after a troubled...
Ian Carmichael is the perpetual loser always trumped by arch-cad Terry-Thomas. That is until he takes instruction from Alistair Sim and learns...
And here the British horror portmanteau came to die. Sexploitation kingpin Stanley A Long tied up three supporting features penned by Michael...
Dame Joan Collins as a nun and Richard ‘Medusa’ Burton as a biscuit are the leading lights for this Cinemascope show reel...
If there had to be an acknowledged king of the cut-price Bond knock-off, self-financing string-and-sealing-wax auteur Lindsay Shonteff would be your man....
A mysterious private organisation promises luckless bankrupts and failures a completely new physical identity.
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