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...
Roger Moore had dragged the Bond franchise well into `pleasingly silly’ by this time which is good in a sense but on...
Jack Lemmon’s toilet roll will maker shacks uneasily up with Walter Matthau’s brown and green sandwich maker in this Neil Simon mannerfest...
Wounded IRA gang leader James Mason ducks in and out of the streets of Belfast one night, meeting drunken painter Robert Newton,...
Yes, this really is “based on the Bobbie Gentry song of the same name”. Robby ‘Rent-a-Cop’ Benson jumps off said Tallahatchie bridge....
Jon Voight gets involved with this week’s contingent of naughty Nazis as he tracks the secret ex-SS organisation headed by Maximillian ‘Black...
One of Gainsborough’s best – and that is saying something indeed – this is really a reworking of Arnold ‘Godfrey’ Ridley’s The...
For sheer cheek, this takes the biscuit. Cheapo Italian filmmakers cast Sean Connery’s younger, non-thespian brother Neil as Dr Neil Connery: bearded,...
Gregory Peck *is* Ambrose Bierce! Yep, this massively expensive western has the author of the much-quoted Devil’s Dictionary and the much-ripped-off Incident...
Clearly having learnt nothing from his recent sojourn to that terrible Planet of the Apes, Charlton Heston once more fins himself representing...
“When the Jews return to Zion…”
It always amazes us that this programme could still be responsible for so many cultural reference points, since the show itself was...
This Really Great Big Film comes from Sergio Leone and stars James ‘you would be in hysterics’ Woods and Robert De Niro...
Despite the presence of Peter Ustinov, this isn’t the madcap story of the theft of a spitfire skeleton containing a secret microfilm,...
Dick Emery does all his dodgy characters in this plotless (he has to look at some women’s arses, is the extent of...
Salty old fisherman Richard ‘lower teeth’ Harris accidentally kills the titular zebra-skinned cetacean’s mate and unborn child, causing it to go on...
With astonishing rapidity, not to mention alarming ferocity, Hollywood took the release of Dr No as the starting pistol to a silly...
Did Ian McEwan rip this old horror off for The Cement Garden? Libel laws prevent us from saying ‘Well yes of course...
One of the late-period Ealing drama series to cover a particular location or institution ( e.g. The Square Ring – boxing, Pool...
By the ’70s, of course, Australia was the number one destination for British ex-pats. saw Brit teacher Donald Pleasence stranded in The...
High Noon in space…apparently. Actually this is really rather good and features Sean ‘Canary’ Connery in all his balding, paunchy glory. With...
Late ’70s much of a muchness wherein ex-con Peter Fonda shacks up with Susan ‘Kate and Allie’ Saint James to rescue his...
This Australian Ealing drama is a nifty regular in these waters, detailing the mammoth movement of half a million cows out of...
The Wizard of Oz (1939) was always ripe for a rock remake. In 1978 the all-black The Wiz flopped into cinemas, and...
We quite like this poorly received update of the whole Shane thing. Firstly it’s got Crint ‘Clint’ Eastwood in it and not...
The first outing for Painless Potter, directed by Norman ‘The Right Kind of Monkey Business’ MacLeod and with plenty of input from...
Charles Laughton and Gregory Peck don the wigs and take to a bloody massive Old Bailey set to prosecute suspected spouse poisoner...
All conspiracy theory films made between 1965 and 1980 are great, even the dire ones, but Alan J Pakula’s gloriously shot journey...
Take a trip back to when the British film industry did period drama because they were good at it, not just because...
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