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.
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...
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