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...
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...
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