Three exclamation marks in the title ought to give you a clue as to how good this biography of Chuck Berry is; and...
We got into the habit of raising our hopes for the year’s imported non-holiday, what with much ace Hammer and co. stuff...
This is more like it. Stylish and odd late-period Hammer fare, with Angharad ‘Poldark’ Rees as the daughter of the Gladstone bag-toting...
Odd WWII comedy from the pens of Dick Clement and Ian La Frenais, by way of early (i.e. any good) Michael Winner,...
Harrison ‘good against remotes is one thing’ Ford packs up his spokeshave once and for all to play a Lesley-Anne Downe-fancying pilot...
It sounds like the result of an especially uninspired round of ‘making up composite rubbish digital TV channels down the pub’, but...
Treasurable Launder-Gilliat school hijinks from a play (previously televised by the Beeb, with a tiny Nigel Stock) by John ‘Kind Hearts’ Dighton,...
Buried up to her waist in shite in the name of Beckett, it’s… Felicity Kendall! Thus drawing ever closer the parallel we’ve...
A happy helping of Niven as he stars as a raffish Englishman – natch – coming into the Irish estate of his...
Victor Spinetti’s practically made a career out of this seemingly ignoring the fact that every other character actor with a pulse was...
No, not the hard-boiled George C Scott vs. porn barons drama. It’s the ’70s tits-‘n’-sitcom-veterans parade, starring dreary ‘cult’ porn star Fiona...
“With a piece in his hand he takes on the man!” It’s gritty, it’s grainy, it’s good! Jimmy Cliff is the poor...
Simon Wincer was a director attuned to the sinister possibilities of Oz, with Snapshot (1979), in which a model is stalked by...
Rich teenage suicide freak seeks ageing, train carriage-dwelling concentration camp survivor for fun and frolics. Must like Cat Stevens. ‘I suppose you...
Celluloid outing for 1970s US improv troupe The Ace Trucking Company, which was very much an acquired taste (although it presumably struck...
Gene Wilder’s a one for doing dodgy sub-Mel Brooks pastiche comedies. We had Sherlock Holmes’ Smarter Brother, and now this affectionate, if...
The career-sabotaging Monkees classic is basically a feature-length episode of the series, as if rewritten by some semi-politically aware UCLA critical theory...
Kris ‘Sunday Mornin’ Kristofferson proves once again that he can act a lot better then he can sing in this revisionist tale...
Pilot for the Mystery Movie strand everyone forgets. Richard Boone plays a western detective – not as in McCloud, but actually in...
Little Alan Ladd stars with Stanley Baker and Basil ‘Went The Day Well’ Sydney as he starts work on a whaler then...
Anthony Quinn and “master prestidigitator” Sophia Loren hitch up in Cheyenne for a bit of 19th century travelling theatre, until Steve ‘The...
Gene Kelly gets behind the camera for this slightly wobbly tale of Babs Streisand out to ensnare grumpy demi-millionaire Walter Matthau (they...
The famously ‘deconstructionist’ film of the famously ‘deconstructionist’ Broadway revue, with Ole Olsen and Chic Johnson unable to throw crap at the...
Long-ranging Tudor Marriage Lines with, strangely, Keith ‘Captain Beaky’ Michell as the larger-than-life monarch, Donald ‘Perfectly’ Pleasence as Thomas Cromwell, Charlotte Rampling...
“Professor Little Old Man!” Mel Brooks stitches up Hitch like a kipper, and gag upon gag accumulates in the lobby. Our favourites...
Not many films can make the viewer seethe with fury at injustice as much as this one can. The great Harry Andrews...
It’s a Disney movie, so banish all thoughts of underwear, slapping heads and stock film of fireworks before the adverts, although it...
George C Scott is the token nice Nazi investigating the airship disaster sadly most famous for being accompanied by Herbert ‘Not Mandelson’s...
‘Put on lots of perfume, Miss Smith! Everywhere! I like it!’ Sellers comes up trumps as the titular sad case businessman trapping...
We don’t like Star trek much. Next Generation is alright but the rest is not much cop, we feel. We do, however,...
Hmm. Nuclear power station owner Kirk Douglas suspects his son to be the Antichrist, who’s after the controls to the carbon rods...
Steve McQueen swaps his bike for a big old fashioned computer, which he uses to clean up at the casino in this...
1977: producer Don Boyd, driving through America to get to the set of horse opera International Velvet, casts his eye at the...
“The screen’s first full-length musical comedy cartoon” this Fleischer piece boasted. Hmmmm… wouldn’t that have been Snow White? Anyway, it’s quite good...
In this elegantly deranged effort, turn-of-century palaeontologists Christopher Lee and Peter Cushing take a fossilised ape man via train from Peking to...
Ralph ‘Dear John’ Bates deflects buxom wench Kate ‘Triangle’ O’Mara’s affections in order to bring a hotpants-clad Dave ‘Green Cross’ Prowse to...
Swordfish!
Alec Guinness personally took the blame for this commercial flop, having written the story of maverick modern artist Gulley Jimson for himself...
There are few things on this blowsy Earth as good as an on-form Peter Ustinov film, and this computerised caper comedy's as...
An acknowledged classic of the comedy caper genre, with Robert Redford assembling the requisite team of contrasting personalities (nutty mechanic, taciturn explosives...
Not the Hammer one, not the Ian ‘couldn’t possibly’ Richardson one and definitely – thank the maker- not the Pete and Dud...
Old, good, Hammer adaptation of the Holmes fave, with Peter Cushing and Andre ‘Quatermass’ Morell as the detecting duo, Christopher Lee as...
Not the Hammer production, or the pre-“let’s get silly” period Rathbone-Bruce original, but a mid-’80s version with Ian Richardson and Donald ‘Spooner’s...
We’ve had just about every other version of this tale and here’s the one we could easily have done without – a...
Woeful mid-’70s sexploitation shocker starring Linda ‘Shillingbury Tales’ Hayden as a secretary to demented author Udo ‘Vampires a specialty’ Kier who goes...
Amicus commenced their anthological heyday with this four-piece affair in which over half the male cast wear cravats. The first story is...
Bill Forsyth, chums, is ace. From the fantastic That Sinking Feeling (‘Don’t take the toilet bowls, those things can be traced.’) through...
Richard Lester, popular purveyor of under cranked knees-bent running about in The Beatles’ A Hard Day’s Night (1964), took on a more...
All-girl heist comedy with Susan Saint James, Jane Curtin and Jessica Lange. Their lives variously made a misery by late ’70s galloping...
Lauren Bacall rents a sumptuous uptown apartment and enlists Marilyn Monroe and Betty Grable into a three-way gold digging manhunt in this...