John Mills is the music teacher who gets the kids in the orchestra to play that some of the ‘jitterbug’ style modern...
Frankie Howerd takes his turn to look put-upon in charge of the usual ‘tearaways’. Not good, but better than the terrible ones...
Blake Edwards pits old partners Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis against each other in a Wacky Races/Monte Carlo or Bust-style international jalopy...
Love triangle with Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr and Robert Mitchum, included here as part of our ongoing Splitscreenwatch project – a four-way...
James Garner wins all the races from Mon-AR-co to Monza in John Frankenheimer’s virtually plotless excuse to show lots of ’60s racing...
Deep sea stop motion monster crock which used to suffer terribly in the ’80s when ITV interspersed it with the far superior...
This Spielberg adventure fantasy was always one of those “they wouldn’t let me into Terminator” second choices at the cinema for kids...
Henry’s disabled brother gets to watch the spaghetti sauce for the umpteenth time in Scorcese’s Italian Cooking In 146 Minutes. Oh, and...
We wonder how many films the two ginger twins who censor the news in this have appeared in either as, well, two...
The Dinky Doos Revue (yes, it’s that sort of an affair) are a travelling theatre troupe on hard times, until a meeting...
From Butchers’, a charmingly stiff and uncertain “you’ve got to heat the pot”-style early rock ‘n’ roller, with Terry Dene belting out...
Any film featuring Norman ‘Simon Simon’ Rossington and a fire engine is, as we know, great value. Here he’s one of a...
We suppose they think if they spell it with a ‘Y’ more people will come. The second ever concert, this, from 1971,...
Marianne Faithfull ditches Alain Delon, zips up a once-risqué leather jumpsuit and, er, rides aimlessly about continental Europe (and, more importantly, a...
“There NEVER was a woman like Gilda” Anyway, trouble and strife down South America way with Rita ‘Shawshank’ Hayworth as the eponymous...
Heidi – and that’s yer actual Heidi, up a mountain and all that – learns the true meanings of faith, hope and...
Just an ordinary run of the mill day for Chief Inspector George Gideon – Jack Hawkins, that is – encompassing four murders, two...
The word “sweeping” could have been invented for this generation-spanning Texan cattle ‘n’ oil saga, if it hadn’t already been coined to...
Ah, Tyburn Productions, runt of the Brit-horror litter. They gave us Legend of the Werewolf, and this rather nicely done “something in...
When he accepted the job of Head of Columbia Pictures David Puttnam, from the very start, was vocal in his dislike of...
Good but over-celebrated Ramis/Murray/Ackroyd/Moranis/Weaver/Hudson/Potts effects ‘n’ sarcasm sideshow. Watch for Casey Kasem while the Thompson Twins collect their royalties.
Handy Bendy Kingsley fronts up the first of today’s biiiiiig Attenborough numbers with the help of James Fox, John ‘go screw yourself’...
Top flight Peckinpah caper in which Steve McQueen robs a bank under the watchful eye of sheriff Ben ‘will play grizzled cowboy...
Concert films are, inevitably, pretty unrewarding spectacles. Iffy sound, endless crowd shots, migraine-inducing overuse of the zoom lens, and a sense of...
This has got to have the best soundtrack from any film ever made. Little Richard, Fats Domino, Gene Vincent, Eddie Cochrane and...
The grimmest, bleakest, and most often misquoted Caine film of the lot gets a look-in for its peerless use of locations as...
Chuck ‘Tin Can Alley’ Connors brazenly dons the dubbin and Littleplum broken English to switch sides as the titular Apache. But never...
Top quality swinging social comment, as a floppy Lynn Redgrave stumbles about in awe of loose and louche flatmate Charlotte Rampling, lusts...
Always seems to do well in the “fondly remembered” stakes, does the TV version of G&M, which we reckon must be mainly...
Bill Travers goes from scrawny tenement child to muscle-bound, kilt-wearing Olympic champion, and learns a valuable lesson about where to aim your...
Omar Sharif does Mongol warlord and the inspiration for Python’s Attila The Hun Show is laid bare in this amusingly inept unepic...
The Gregson-Sheridan v. Moore-Kendall death race ’53, and possibly the nearest we’ve got to an It’s A Wonderful Life of our own,...
“Save Ferris!” went the cry. And so we did. Yeah, it’s a little childish and stupid, but then so’s school. Actually, what...
The horror anthology is almost as old as cinema itself, originating in Germany with silent expressionist fare like Tales of Terror (1919)...
Nothing to do with the sainted House, but a rotten American assemblage of tenth-rate corn (most of which, such as the story...
They like to recycle those titles, don’t they? Nothing to do with the Ealing work, this threesome from the Trilogy of Terror...
Things really took off here, as Milton Subotsky and Max J Rosenberg, trading under the name of Amicus Productions, moved away from...
Ealing Studios assembled four of their finest directors to film five tales of supernatural creepiness, and in the process created what remains...
Slade were the Daddies of the glam scene (just as Mud were the HP), so it's only fitting their sole cinematic foray...
Tarnished sequel to the over praised Westworld, with Peter Fonda and Blythe Danner (as ‘Socks’, no less) investigating a cloning conspiracy at...
Galoots, poultroons and lollygaggers harp on about Kubrick ‘discovering’ top turn and only decent thing in this film R Lee Ermey, when...
Thank the maker! Yes, it’s the Billy Wilder/Jack Lemmon edition of the classic newspaper yarn. It fairly oozes class, too with Walter...
It’s Bond film number 2 and one of the best. On the plus side there’s SPECTRE, Col Klebb and her shoes, Robert...
More Jules Verne early space flight, with breathtakingly tiny models. Joseph Cotten creates a super explosive and blasts himself and arch rival...
Sometimes run under the alternate title The Runaways although the original name’s about as much fun as this emetic tale of two...
Burt ‘ulcer’ Lancaster and Deborah ‘Helensburgh’ Kerr canoodle on the beach and Frank ‘Cannonball Run II’ Sinatra spends his time trying to...
Oil baroness Jane Russell takes to Paris to search for a suitor in the first of several Howard Hughes-funded Russell pictures. The...
Harold ‘arsehole to breakfast time’ Pinter fiddles with John Fowles’ Lyme Regis-visiting novel about novels and novelling, with the help of Meryl...
Gene Hackman gets to do his actor’s actor thing in the celebrated cold turkey scene, which is lucky as there’s not that...
James Robertson Justice darts in and out of underground trains again while Gene ‘Loose Cannons’ Hackman tries manfully to catch up with...
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