… 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.
Strike two for Liz Taylor, as an ageing London prozzie who can’t shake off supposed long lost daughter Mia Farrow. She eventually...
Not the Michael J Fox thing, but a genuine slab of intriguing ’60s oddness with James ‘Kenny Ames, you know, Ally Fraser’s...
Yes, the sexploitation gang muscled in on the portmanteau horror genre too, with this delirious bitty saga in which a mummy with...
When Ben Elton revealed to the world he'd created a rock muscial by taking loads of Queen songs, sticking them together and...
This Mario Lanza vehicle is a bit rubbish actually, except for the bit where Mario impersonates all the big Italian singers in...
Early entry in the series. As ever, these are best distinguished by the Harryhausen monsters present – this is the one with...
It’s a Western! With Eric Sykes in! It’s not often you get to type that sentence, worse luck, but here he is...
Carry On meets the nouvelle vague? Sort of. Bob Monkhouse and Alfred Marks are two down-at-heel brothers competing to do in their...
Nice little western spoof with mild-mannered gent and small-arms dealer Kenneth More getting promoted to sheriff of the titular backwater by a...
A late-period effort, from when they were churning out three a year, this is based on The Adventure of the Five Orange...
We usually decry the updated Basil Rathbone Holmes flicks, with their Nazis and whatnot, but this example of same happens to be...
There’s some great stuff in this one – Holmes faking his own death by pretending to faint and drown in a river...
Or The Musgrave Ritual, if you’re playing along with your leather-bound Complete Works at home. Another good one, this has some ace...
This curio features – yes! – Patrick MacNee as Watson and – no! – Roger Moore as Holmes. John Huston is Moriarty,...
Basil Rathbone chases around the US capital in an all-new non-Doyle adventure, and the results are rubbish, but never mind that, just...
Richard O’Brien’s minimalist pseudo-sequel to The Rocky Horror Picture Show (1976) stuck Brad and Janet in a world of small town domestic...
A strange premise for a horror film. What can be scary about a shout?
With glam films suddenly the thing at Odeons nationwide, the GTO label turned out this classic old school rock film, in which...
The presence of this old nutter-on-the-loose suspenser causes much mulling over the hot toddy of star Edward Mulhare’s singular career as the...
Dean Martin mugs his way through the first of the Matt Helm spy take-offs, in much the same way as he mugs...
From an original story by Colonel Foster off of UFO! David Essex is Barry Sheene – well, sort of – urged by...
Kevin Kline ‘does’ comedy. No he bloody well doesn’t. And had there ever been so much fuss over such a trivial role...
Long before celebrity reality TV existed, the 50s saw a neat film idea in the form of following a celebrity couple as...
HMP Slade playing fields, Mr Barraclough is waving his flag around giving – then not giving – offside: Mr Treadaway: What’s he...
Practically everything the genteelly unhinged Vivian Stanshall did lends itself to untold repeated scrutiny – we only just noticed the other day...
Oliver Reed and Ian McShane peg it out of choky and hang around Clapham Junction waiting to make their move for the...
The late ’60s had a mind-expanding effect on Hollywood. Even Otto Preminger, director of such sober fare as Anatomy of a Murder...
New Zealand documentary maker Geoff Steven hit paydirt with this fictional study of an isolated NZ township which, under the auspices of...
Wartime Astaire danceteria with no Oval Office scenes we’re aware of. Nothing to do with Hughie Green’s mammoth ’70s jet-setting quiz, which...
Another Aussie émigré, Roger Donaldson, really put the wind up Kiwi cinema with this near-future actioner. It’s a familiar enough conceit –...
Musical version of Cinderella with Gemma Craven hoofing crystal boots at Prince Richard Chamberlain. Michael Hordern, Edith Evans, Annette Crosbie, Julian Orchard,...
This high-hat Lion Films chamber piece is eighty minutes of Ealing-equalling brilliance, with Pe’er Se’ers’ masterfully sozzled Percy the projectionist upstaged only...
Roger Donaldson really hit his stride with this harrowing melodrama, in which a middle-aged car-obsessed father (played by cult NZ star, ex-Brightonian...
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