What a fabulous, knockout scene!
FATHER ABRAHAM-predating joust for international recognition
Russian answer to 2001, and much better than Kubrick’s overpraised sketch show, to boot, we say. Three cosmonauts orbit a sentient watery...
Columbia Pictures’ first bona-fide David Puttnam-initiated project, and to the shareholders’ chagrin, it involved getting an old Brit chum in (and there’ll...
‘What decade, friends, is this?’ Uptight businessman Jeff Daniels hooks up with a ‘wild’ good-time girl played by Tippi Hedren’s Bloody Daughter,...
A series of superficially threadbare army films enshrining the formidable talents of Lancashire music hall legend Frank Randle. Somewhere in England (1940),...
This is what happens when Ringo Starr, money a-burnin’ a hole in his pocket, decides to make a horror musical with Harry...
No-nonsense miner Trevor ‘Tha’d better stan’ on a bit o’ clunch, then, an’ hold it up wi’ thy ‘ead’ Howard fathers horny...
Perhaps more even than Citizen Kane, this is one film about which practically everyone knows the final plot twist, but relatively few...
Spaceballs: the Billing! When the best thing about a film is a running gag about merchandise, you should realise your in trouble....
Peter Ustinov once testified that the making of Spartacus took so long that although his daughter Andrea had only just been born...
Hitchcock drafts in top moustachioed wanker Salvador Dali to paper over the massive cracks in his feather light Bergman-Peck psychiatry thriller with...
The massacre itself is luridly shot by Roger Corman in ’60s documentaro vision, but the characters are as cornball as any ’30s...
That’ll Be the Day’s Essex saga continued into the early ’60s, with Dave now the lead in The Stray Cats, a Beatlesesque...
John Carpenter took a diversion from his usual fare to bring us this alien love story starring Jeff Bridges – he got...
More Niven Euro-comedy, in which the sainted David plays a Nobel-winning linguist whose neglected wife makes a giant nude sculpture of him...
A rare successful sitcom spin-off produced under the aegis of the great Nat Cohen. Harold (Harry H Corbett) marries a girl recognised...
Forget all that film school rubbish about The Godfather: Part II being the best example of a sequel better than its predecessor...
The second outing for the lads is more of a straight out farce. Harold cripples their horse Hercules by driving his cart...
Unfortunately not a feature length version of the Charlie Farley and Piggy Malone adventure but a remake of screwball comedy “A Slight Case...
In which Hoody himself is Richard ‘Off the telly’ Todd, but look at the backup roster – Peter Finch as the Sheriff...
The smartarse Hollywood blockbuster you don't want to punch in the teeth.
So Sinatra makes this fair-do thriller wherein he plays a would-be Presidential assassin who holes up in sheriff Sterling Hayden’s house to...
Glenda Jackson shares Murray ‘Bangkok’ Head with Peter ‘Lost Horizon’ Finch in this stupendously ponderous navel gazing relatio-romp, redeemed for us by...
The isolation felt by new arrivals in the wide open spaces of the New World was a major theme for the subsequent...
Richard Lester’s own justification of the Middle-Film-In-A-Trilogy-Is-Best theorem (we’re not counting Superman IV, here, obviously). Freed of the pondering pretentiousness of the...
Awful, Hackman-less, camp third instalment which never lived up to the Shreddies 3-D game cards that preceded it. Richard Pryor unwisely takes...
Australian-set adaptation of a James Herbert book shot by David Hemmings? What could go wrong? Everything you would expect and more, down...
“They’re back, tougher than ever!” They must have had some dinner, then. Considering the palaver Regan caused at the end of the...
The first big screen outing for Thaw and Waterman, and the exclamation mark should provide adequate warning. (Also note the rationing of...
This mammoth, 2 1/2 hour Bob Fosse musical is high ’60s camp all the way through, jam packed with colourisation, crash zooms...
Burt Lancaster splishes across the pools of various old mates, his life unravelling in a cod-symbolic manner all the while. One of...
More ‘Enery-the-Eighthery. This time James Robertson ‘bleeding time’ Justice dons the beard and padding for the tale of Mary, Queen of Scots,...
Also-ran Arthurian whimsy from Disney’s post-Xerox machine “thick black outline” period, which always looked a bit cheap and tatty compared to the...
A bewigged Miles “Graham Norton stooge” O’Keefe beheads unjolly green giant Sean Connery in this notorious “just a flesh wound” ’80s Arthurian...
Olly Reed heads a bunch of native south coast mod lads (among them David ‘Blowup’ Hemmings, John ‘Father’ Alderton, Derek ‘Brother’ Nimmo...
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