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...
And here the British horror portmanteau came to die. Sexploitation kingpin Stanley A Long tied up three supporting features penned by Michael...
With glam films suddenly the thing at Odeons nationwide, the GTO label turned out this classic old school rock film, in which...
That’ll Be the Day’s Essex saga continued into the early ’60s, with Dave now the lead in The Stray Cats, a Beatlesesque...
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...
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...
Another Aussie émigré, Roger Donaldson, really put the wind up Kiwi cinema with this near-future actioner. It’s a familiar enough conceit –...
The isolation felt by new arrivals in the wide open spaces of the New World was a major theme for the subsequent...
Burt Lancaster splishes across the pools of various old mates, his life unravelling in a cod-symbolic manner all the while. One of...
Australian-set adaptation of a James Herbert book shot by David Hemmings? What could go wrong? Everything you would expect and more, down...
Glenda Jackson shares Murray ‘Bangkok’ Head with Peter ‘Lost Horizon’ Finch in this stupendously ponderous navel gazing relatio-romp, redeemed for us by...
In which Hoody himself is Richard ‘Off the telly’ Todd, but look at the backup roster – Peter Finch as the Sheriff...
No-nonsense miner Trevor ‘Tha’d better stan’ on a bit o’ clunch, then, an’ hold it up wi’ thy ‘ead’ Howard fathers horny...
Musical version of Cinderella with Gemma Craven hoofing crystal boots at Prince Richard Chamberlain. Michael Hordern, Edith Evans, Annette Crosbie, Julian Orchard,...
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...
Oliver Reed and Ian McShane peg it out of choky and hang around Clapham Junction waiting to make their move for the...
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...
Or The Musgrave Ritual, if you’re playing along with your leather-bound Complete Works at home. Another good one, this has some ace...
There’s some great stuff in this one – Holmes faking his own death by pretending to faint and drown in a river...
We usually decry the updated Basil Rathbone Holmes flicks, with their Nazis and whatnot, but this example of same happens to be...
Slight Alec Guinness mystery wherein He Who Hopes They Don’t Laugh plays a mild-mannered English teacher and his villainous aristocratic French double....
Yes, Cuddly Ken Russell tackles the life of yet another Great Artist (though here it’s some sculptor we’ve never heard of, and...
One of those long, turgid films made by Italian directors that could roughly be lumped under the banner ‘classical soft porn’, or...
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...
Olly Reed heads a bunch of native south coast mod lads (among them David ‘Blowup’ Hemmings, John ‘Father’ Alderton, Derek ‘Brother’ Nimmo...
A bewigged Miles “Graham Norton stooge” O’Keefe beheads unjolly green giant Sean Connery in this notorious “just a flesh wound” ’80s Arthurian...
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...
More ‘Enery-the-Eighthery. This time James Robertson ‘bleeding time’ Justice dons the beard and padding for the tale of Mary, Queen of Scots,...
This mammoth, 2 1/2 hour Bob Fosse musical is high ’60s camp all the way through, jam packed with colourisation, crash zooms...
“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...
Awful, Hackman-less, camp third instalment which never lived up to the Shreddies 3-D game cards that preceded it. Richard Pryor unwisely takes...
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...
Unfortunately not a feature length version of the Charlie Farley and Piggy Malone adventure but a remake of screwball comedy “A Slight Case...
John Carpenter took a diversion from his usual fare to bring us this alien love story starring Jeff Bridges – he got...
Hitchcock drafts in top moustachioed wanker Salvador Dali to paper over the massive cracks in his feather light Bergman-Peck psychiatry thriller with...
Spaceballs: the Billing! When the best thing about a film is a running gag about merchandise, you should realise your in trouble....
Perhaps more even than Citizen Kane, this is one film about which practically everyone knows the final plot twist, but relatively few...
HMP Slade playing fields, Mr Barraclough is waving his flag around giving – then not giving – offside: Mr Treadaway: What’s he...
Kevin Kline ‘does’ comedy. No he bloody well doesn’t. And had there ever been so much fuss over such a trivial role...
Dean Martin mugs his way through the first of the Matt Helm spy take-offs, in much the same way as he mugs...
Nice little western spoof with mild-mannered gent and small-arms dealer Kenneth More getting promoted to sheriff of the titular backwater by a...
It’s a Western! With Eric Sykes in! It’s not often you get to type that sentence, worse luck, but here he is...
Early entry in the series. As ever, these are best distinguished by the Harryhausen monsters present – this is the one with...
This Mario Lanza vehicle is a bit rubbish actually, except for the bit where Mario impersonates all the big Italian singers in...
Anthony Andrews plays the Ffing toff liberator in this TV movie from the venerable London Films stable. Look out for Von Gelb...
The main source of mirth with this being, of course, Martin Amis’ notorious dabbling in sci-fi scripting. Not sure if he was...
The massacre itself is luridly shot by Roger Corman in ’60s documentaro vision, but the characters are as cornball as any ’30s...
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