Margaret Rutherford gets another place in the list as the unintentional star of this great Ealing comedy. Pimlico turns out to be...
Dirk Bogarde and Corrie’s Alan Bradley predate McQueen and co. with this strikingly similar great escape adventure. Apropos nothing at all, we...
We’ve never been Kubrick fans, it is fair to say. Quite what all the fuss is about is rather beyond us. Does...
This isn’t the dodgy Euro-sexcom with Ingmar Bergman’s daughter flogging hooky paintings, but yet another caper comedy, in which dissatisfied wife Natalie...
High gloss comedy caper with a very British crew. Stanley Baker is the bank insider with the scheme, and louche, decadent but...
Give us this camped-up Faust over Rocky Horror any day. Paul ‘Evergreen’ Williams performs copyright theft on William ‘Eaten Alive’ Finlay, who...
‘What *are* ants?’ King of the ant attack movies (until, of course, we get Ant Attack: the Movie, filmed entirely in one...
It’s a British International Picture! Coming before Hitchcock’s famed Blackmail but after Week-End Wives with Peter Dandy George, this silent classic is...
The Cosmic Wheels really were coming off Donovan's wagon by the early seventies.
Doris and Rock exercise their chance to be Famous on the Phone. Boasting a lot of telephonic conversations, this inevitably has lashings...
Mid-period mad scientist slapstick of Sellers vs. Lom – stand by to tick off Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Leonard Rossiter, Richard ‘Slartibartfast’...
Here’s the first of the films, with David Niven as Sir Charles Phantom (the notorious pink Litton), Robert Wagner and John Le...
Slightly too clever Brit version of The Dirty Dozen, with Michael Caine leading a rag-tag band of ex-cons through North Africa to...
5C’s well-meaning and liberal form teacher has his work cut out convincing senior teaching staff that his form won’t cock around too...
Now that Kim Cattrall’s fully ensconced as an international taboo-breaking doyenne of sophisticated comedy, what better time to show this? Apparently that...
Christ, time flies, doesn’t it? We remember going to see this one at the cinema when it came out, and thinking Bobcat...
We’ve had the chance to review every one of the first five Police Academy films now (the core canon, the Pentateuch, if...
This ‘film’ raises a few pertinent questions: how did Bobcat Goldthwaite manage to forge a career out of talking in a funny...
Proving once again that there’s nothing ghosts hate more than a middle-aged woman with an annoying voice (cf. Ethel Meaker in Rentaghost).
Derided universally for being a misbegotten assault on all six senses, and with a large amount of good reason too, but what...
The Lange-Nicholson one, and no, they’re *not* doing it for real. Interestingly, when we put “postman always rings twice” into the IMDb,...
Fresh from playing Derek Flint, perhaps the most famous ‘name’ spoof Bond of all, James Coburn is cast as the titular White...
Gene Hackman abuses teenage girls and makes them into sausages. Lee Marvin goes off to sort him out. Bob Wilson and David...
Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her portrayal of the eponymous character in this adaptation of the well known Muriel Spark private...
Roughly equivalent to two dozen editions of Man Alive chopped into bits and then reassembled at random.
Peter Watkins makes The War Game. The Beeb are told by Powers Unnamed to bin it. The Beeb bin it. Watkins, never...
Was William Hickey ever young? Like Alan Whicker and Cliff Michelmore he seems to have been privvy to the Fountain of Eternal...
Chances aren’t that you’ll remember the gruff-voiced dumbcracking pig-faced puppet alien who filled up a gap in ITV’s mid-afternoon weekend schedules in...
Low-budget 1971 British film about a “sinister and menacing” (albeit middle-class) motorcycle gang called ‘The Living Dead’ who terrorise and wreak early...
Ah, the killer electricity film. Clearly going after the Poltergeist ‘PG horror’ ticket, a lil’ boy and his single dad come up...
Hancock’s other film is a bit dark and not as much fun as The Rebel, we’re saying. As a seaside Punch and...
Remember when you could last stomach Tom Hanks? This stand-up romance marks the last gasp of the pre-rot stage for us, as...
It may be frowned upon by devotees of the original, brilliantly claustrophobic ten-bob BBC productions of Nigel Kneale’s phone book-monickered prof, but...
New Zealand maestro Geoff Murphy’s next film after mad Kiwi western Utu couldn’t have been more of a change of pace. Bruno...
More Irish stereotypes on parade here but in such affectionate fashion that it hardly matters. John Ford’s homage to rural Ireland may...
As befits an MGM production put together under the powerful hands of old school director Mervyn Leroy, this is a big film...
“Beware evildoers, wherever you are!” Everyone raves on about Zelig, but we prefer this slice of Woody waxing nostalgic over wireless wonders,...
Firstest and mostest of the Indiana Jones films – and from a time before they were even called Indiana Jones films and...
Coen Brothers comedy rendered mostly-annoying by typically self-conscious ‘wry’ with and ‘irony’ etc. and of course the appalling Nicolas ‘how does that...
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,...
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