Peter Ustinov does a comedy Mexican general in this intentionally zany Alamo update with Harry ‘M*A*S*H’ Morgan and Kenneth “two coats, one...
Paul Newman plays a Lionel Hutz-alike washed-up lawyer, kick-started back into life by Jack ‘Crazy like a Fox’ Warden. As featured on...
“Billing German art cinema, Herr Cream? Bit bourgeois, isn’t it?” Well, a) it’s a lean old week as regards our usual fare,...
We’ve always liked the late-period Hammers more than the acknowledged “classic” ’50s films, so thank heavens for the tide of popular opinion...
Odd, Anglo-Canadian feline horror portmanteau in which horror novelist Peter Cushing tells three terrible tales of supernatural catty menace to disbelieving publisher...
Robert Zemeckis turns out wall-to-wall emetic drear these days, but this little diamond from the days when the phrase ‘black comedy’ still...
Debbie Reynolds plays a sort of backwoods Toyah who rises to become the toast of Europe, before making an elementary yet rather...
Odd stuff indeed with Barbra Streisand (no, come back!) as a lonely mother indulging in crypto-feminist reveries in her apartment – joining...
Famed high school drama with Sandy Dennis as an idealistic young English teacher flung in at the deep end to a violent,...
Jane Russell does The Deep – i.e. swims about a lot looking for treasure. We do love exclamation marks in titles –...
Dappy vanity project from Prince, which is only of interest if you really, really, *really* like the Parade album but for some...
After quitting the Bond franchise with just the one international cap, George Lazenby sank most of his earnings into this turned-on riposte...
It’s post-apocalyptic New York. Again. Two rival gangs fight for control of the streets, one led by Max von Sydow – Antonius...
Bronson goes back to school.
We’ve just paid for these teas!
Suspense… literally
Ham on wry!
The 'highlight' in this fiercely unmemorable mess is a scantily-clad Hempel being captured by a gang of Marxist chefs and whipped with...
A forty minute wonder that distills the scaremongering essence of the many ‘don’t talk to strangers’ films which were shown in school...
Granted, this delirious product of the long-running Stanley Long-Derek Ford partnership is unlikely to owe its disjointed, spaced-out nature to close semiotic...
Fresh from his yak-toting cameo in Head, Frank Zappa made this gorggy orgy of groupies, frogs and horses, and suddenly the Monkees...
At the time, there was probably no-one better to film Pete Townsend’s convoluted concept fable of a sensorially-deprived serial victim who becomes...
‘Does snuff exist?’ ponders Channel Four, passim. Well, yes it does, it’s here, and it’s rated A. Screenwriter Gerald Durrell and director...
This American TV movie consists of three stories all starring the great Karen Black in various guises. The first two tales are...
Hammer veteran Freddie Francis oversaw the death throes of the British portmanteau’s glory days with this frightfully silly Asylum-esque effort for World...
A poor second bite of the portmanteau cherry for Amicus, with Burgess Meredith as Dr Diabolo, a carnival showman with a rather...
Vincent Price returns under new management for a trio of chillers inspired by Nathaniel ‘The Scarlet Letter’ Hawthorne, involving crushed bodies under...
It’s not really a glam film, is That’ll, being set in the ’50s, but it does come from David Puttnam’s Goodtimes Enterprises,...
Cliff Richard moved his film career on from the days of Una Stubbs and Summer Holiday with this wondrously frothy confection, which...
Going beyond the bounds of decency-as-was, Hitchcock took his trademark black humour and shoved it into the foreground, with this whimsical tale...
A ninety-minute longeur in which various ballet dancers (yes, that’s Wayne Sleep as Squirrel Nutkin) put on outsized, hideous animal heads with...
Post-Peeping Tom brush-off, the itinerant Michael Powell fetched up in Sydney to create – what else? An Italian neo-realist romantic comedy. The...
An Australian take on the ‘young troublemakers re-educated in remote torture camps’ future fascist chestnut, with funny police vans, giant chess and...
This is the second of the big screen Supermarionation spin-offs, after Thunderbirds Are Go! which is famous for featuring a) Bob Monkhouse...
Barry Mahon’s production of the inch-high folktale. For those still in blissful ignorance, Mahon was a WWII flying ace and Stalag Luft...
Don Ameche is a singing D’Artagnan in this old spoofy swashbuckler, but never mind him as, playing three cooks who get hilariously...
One of those lurid cod-psychological thrillers made in the wake of Spellbound, here with Joanne Woodward exhibiting a trio of turnabout temperaments...
Frank Poole off of 2001 conspires with Elke Sommer to rob an armoured car from Lee J Cobb’s security company, which turns...
The unappealing coupling of Ethel Merman and Donald O’Connor put the mockers on this hoary old showbiz love triangle musical from the...
Norman J Warren. The no-budget exploitation mogul has particular significance, as his oeuvre marks the exact point where the Right Kind of...
A three-piece Corman Poe portmanteau, decorously worn by Vincent Price, who in the first fights with Maggie Pierce over his wife’s death,...
Ah, me. The list of memories this Cray-assisted madeleine brings forth is practically endless. Watching clips on Screen Test before it came...
Canadian period wilderness drama in which Oliver Reed buys a mute Rita Tushingham for 1000 dollars, acts up something rotten even by...
Which crap ’80s ad springs to mind first – bloke toasting flame-grilled whopper in the exhaust of a fighter plane or Peugeot...
“I’ll be tellin’ ’em – once upon a time there was an ugly ducklin’ – I’ll be singin’ ’em – the king...
The dramatic prototype version of Please, Sir! provides Sidney ‘Sneakers’ Poitier with the perfect platform to look stern as he tries to...
“You want bread? Go fuck a baker!” Counterfeiter Willem Dafoe is advised in William Friedkind’s neon-drenched French Connection-style (well, there’s a big...
A prime slice of ‘getting sci-fi classics all wrong’ fun ensues with this well-worn “re-imagining” of Wells wherein Rod Taylor uses a...
British-made but Canadian-set one-locationer about a boy who gets stuck in a bank’s airtight, time-controlled safe, and the earnest frowning men in...
Nyuk, nyuk, and indeed, nyuk.
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