A celebration of London and friendship gets off to a slow, stiff-upper-lipped start
We still say the best thing Julien Temple ever did was his first short film, which did nothing more high-falutin’ than cobble...
Also-also-ran ’50s sci-fi which has attained a kind of kitsch immortality due to a) having an amusingly meat-and-potatoes title, and b) Ray...
Try to ignore Peter Lawford and enjoy Judy Garland and Fred Astaire. ’40s MGM musicals aren’t really our bag but you can’t...
Never mind smuggling coke from Phil Spector, there are blatant scenes of irresponsible ‘standing up on the saddle’ in this well-worn road...
It may sound like a line of dialogue for Glyn Edwards in Minder, but is instead a Spencer Tracy starring adaptation of...
We recall getting a pencil case (one of those plastic, compartmentalised ones with a built in tape measure) seemingly based around this...
Kurt Russell managed to top even his ground-breaking portrayal of Dexter Riley in The Strongest Man In The World and made such...
Lush cinematography, marvellous acting (in particular from Sylvia Kristel) and genuinely erotic scenes tastefully directed… Just Jaeckin! It’s the same badly dubbed,...
Inexplicably often lauded as a classic (presumably on the grounds that any ’80s sci-fi film that isn’t full of space battles must...
Experimental(ish) short(ish) film made for NBC telly but released over here in your actual fleapits. David Warner buys his fiancée and engagement...
First – a-ha-hand best! – of Jim Varney’s slapstick simpleton cycle (although Ernest Goes To Jail does have some fantastic moments, “I...
Still holding out well after all these years, is Snake Plisken sent out by Lee ‘Nimble’ Van Cleef to save President Donald...
Caesar and pals turn up in the past, our present which is of course now the past for all groups concerned but...
Stallone in goal? How likely is it that any of the players would’ve given a toss that they might have won that...
Eskimo Nell stands head and shoulders over its tit-'n'-bum cousins.
Marty Feldman's wardrobe supplied by Mr Fish.
Clint Eastwood may be the name above the title, but it’s Ruth Gordon as Ma and the legendary Black Widows that are...
Pre-Blazing Saddles western spoof (yep, another one) with John ‘Gomez’ Astin as the titular bandit, being pursued by Mickey Rooney and the...
Good Old Anthony Shaffer, of Wicker Man and Sleuth fame, led a sort of double career-life as apart, from those cultish gems,...
A sort of ’60s proto-Wicker Man set-up, in which Franch grandee David Niven tries to save his failing vineyard with a little...
A Ken ‘no, you’re meant to hold the cork with a tea towel and twist the bottle… oh, give it here’ Follett...
OK-ish Maltese thriller with Mark Lester copping it after witnessing the assassination of an ambassador, and having to bring big sis Susan...