A Jonathan Demme-penned bit of mildly condescending anti-commercialism about a worryingly young-looking Diane ‘Rumblefish’ Lane and pals (including Laura Dern) forming a...
“As luck would have it, I found a book of matches.” Raymond Chandler detective noir filmed, “daringly”, entirely from main gumshoe Philip...
A Peter Ustinov directorial affair, with Sophia Loren stomping about Brideshead Castle as the ex-laundering countess torn between ice cool David Niven...
Fairly faithful (almost shot for shot) but totally unnecessary remake of the much loved Gainsborough train-napping, with Angela Lansbury just fine in...
The (slightly) less silly of Richard ‘Superman’ Donner’s 1985 fantasies (the other being, natch, The Goonies) with Matthew Broderick on the run...
No amount of brow-creasing analysis into the allegorical meaning of this film can mute its sheer unalloyed delight as Alec Guinness plays...
You may remember Doug McClure from this film, being shot then rescued, along with Susan ‘Bouquet of Barbed Wire’ Penhaligon and Keith...
Grizzled former ‘tec Eddie Albert (best known as the pratfalling comic relief off Roman Holiday) teams up with ex-con and adversary Robert...
One of Hollywood’s countless Mad Max road rip-offs. In a Clarksonian nightmare future where eco-fascists force America’s populace into dinky electric cars,...
At last! A palpable hit! This mammoth production is forever talked of in hushed tones, with awed mentions of cavalcades of extras,...
You’re not allowed to call yourself a ‘movie buff’, of course, if you don’t think Peter Bogdanovich’s meditative study of post-war small-town...
Apart from his Brooksfilms collaborations, Marty Feldman didn’t score very big with his big screen outings. Between the decidedly shaky The Adventures...
Now, we love this and are delighted to see it…again. Anyway, the thing to watch out for here is the scene where...
It is almost forgotten now what a massive star Jack Hawkins was. Perhaps the only British film star worthy of the term...
Sort of like Witness but with a better plot but less soul music, Humphrey Bogart is a priest who appears in a...
Not a film version of the old STV afternoon political boreathon but instead the glorious topical romp with an impeccably on-form Ian...
Tap-dancing lawyer Robert Redford (doing his lovable simp thing) has his career stalled by partner Debra Winger (doing her emotional jaw-wobbling-from-side-to-side thing)...
Regular readers will know the problem we have with the cinematic genre most usually known as The Sort of Foreign Films You...
Ropey entry in the werewolf canon from short-lived (and you can see why) Hammer imitators Tyburn, with Peter Cushing and Ron Moody...
Bill Cosby + millions = funny! Er, well...
Late ’80s telly movie starring Garak off of Deep Space Nine as the George-related ivroy tinkler, which provides us with a slim...
Starring real life husband and wife team Ben Lyon and Bebe Daniels, and their children Richard and Barbara Lyon, this is probably...
“Still no sign of land! How long is it?” “That’s a rather personal question!” Ah, the Hitchcock water tank chestnut returns for...
Probably more accurately described as a film version of Whatever Happened To The Likely Lads? this further proves that not all sitcoms...
A weird sop to the RAF, directed by several big names including not only our very own patron saint Michael Powell but...
Incredibly slowly paced CS Lewis cartoon adaptation from the Children’s Television Workshop. We recall this being shown, with fantastic fanfare, in two...
Jack Cardiff! The very name sends film buffs in possession of at least one good eye into swooning reveries over his photographic...
Extremely odd late-period John Houston mystery, with MI5 operative George C Scott investigating the titular list of recently-assassinated individuals with the help...
With Ivor Novello, of course. We always like it when the Ivor Novello award for best song goes to something by Girls...
Annual outing for the much-loved prog sci-fi panto. Michael York and Jenny Agutter escape from queasily rendered Radio 1-style age fascist society...
Perhaps Orson Welles isn’t a character who was ever firmly on the rails in the first place, but this peripatetic metropolitan sketch...
People who think “Lockstock” is a good gangster film? We shit ’em. Bob Hoskins’ demented turn in, er, “Longgood” is the cornerstone...
And to accompany it, here’s The Longest Film. Lots of star turns here but we can’t help feeling that it’s all a...
“If Looks Could Kill!” “A confused and ineffective modification of a theme handled in The Stepford Wives, done with neither flair nor...
This is the Hollywood number of the epic Borders tale, which is a shame because if it had been the telly one...
We bet you thought this was brilliant when it was first out. It hasn’t really worn that well, though, as we discovered...
Dracula spoof with George Hamilton as the caped nibbler relocated to ’70s New York, chasing after Susan ‘Kate and Allie’ Saint James...
The cheap and cheerful George Hamilton vampire spoof, exactly midway between Young Frankenstein and Leslie Nielsen: Typecast and Lumping It in laughability...
War reporter William Holden shacks up with Jennifer ‘Barratts of Wimpole Street’ Jones in Hong Kong, to much of-its-time interracial hoo-hah. As...
Ernest Borgnine, rather incongruously, stars in this schmaltzy tale of the formation of Guide Dogs for the Blind. Will the now all-too-defunct...
More Doris Day, more Broadway biopicage, as she takes the lead role for the story of singer and “taxi dancer” (no, us...
Black protruding tongues!
Elvis’ second movie – surprisingly good, it has to be said – is basically an embellished account of the King’s own rise...
Fun if decidedly unoriginal melding of The Haunting and The Stone Tape, with scientific investigator Clive ‘Potsworth and Co.’ Revill leading a...