Hooray! An ’80s TV version of Victor Herbert’s whimsical Yuletide operetta, just what we wanted! The version you’re thinking of starred Laurel...
Bob Hope comedy with one hell of a contrived plot. Hope’s a bachelor (of the non-confirmed variety) who makes a living writing...
Don’t listen to the naysayers, this is still a cracking film and we like it much more than Part III ‘cos this...
The original ‘evil eight-year-old’ chiller adapted from the eponymous play, which has inspired Nick ‘Yea verily, I did see an ass with...
In a nutshell: Theresa Russell takes an overdose. She’s been shagging Art Garfunkel behind Denholm Elliot’s back. Elliot finds out, and doesn’t...
Jack ‘The Sky’s the Limit’ Buchanan plays a thinly-disguised Jose ‘Cockleshell Heroes’ Ferrer, lousing up Astaire and Charisse’s fun musical with pretentious...
A sort-of sequel to caper flick extraordinaire The Hot Rock, directed by Hollywood choreographer Gower Champion, which sounds like an oddball appointment...
If you look closely about two-thirds of the way through this film, just around the bit where Anita Pallenberg (with the voice...
Kurt ‘Tennis Shoes’ Russell helps out Harry ‘MASH’ Morgan’s ailing TV network by appointing a chimp as executive in this unusually (for...
Confusion may reign here. This US TV special from 1986 is a straight retelling of the legendary ringmaster’s career, as portrayed by...
Bedridden dog nut Jennifer ‘I might invite you up sometime, if you bring your oxygen mask” Jones falls in love with poet...
We don’t care how many technical feats were achieved with the camera lenses and lighting, this is Kubrick Does Period Drama Starring...
Proper, West-y Ward-y Batman, obviously, not that ’90s yuck. Romero, Meredith, Gorshin and Merriwether team up to hoover dehydrated UN delegates as...
The evil communist Chinese (led by a yellowed-up Martin ‘Vogon captain’ Benson) dig tunnels all the way to the US, in which...
Cheap and cheerful post-‘Wars space romp from the Roger Corman 2-a-day stable, with Robert Vaughn – who gets one of the best...
We’ve had a statistician in this morning to help us plot the goodness of the Apes films on a little PowerPoint graph...
If you’re ‘mad as hell’ that the Academy couldn’t be arsed to give Peter Finch the Oscar until after he died, you’ll...
If Being There was worth an Oscar, this deserves the Nobel Peace Prize
Benedict, Hatch and Greene get searching for that shining planet. Also featuring Wilfrid Hyde-White, Jane Seymour, Ray Milland, the voice of Patrick...
Tony Richardson and John Osborne may have gathered the glory with their ’60s version of Henry Fielding’s monstrous six-volume picaresque epic, but...
Once again, Amicus Productions come through with the goods. After the splendid Vault of Horror comes their excellent, all-over-the-shop werewolf whodunit. Superfly...
Stop motion legend Willis ‘King Kong’ O’Brien writes a pleasantly nutty film treatment about a Tyrannosaurus eating sheep in modern day Mexico....
Stewart Granger plays the foppish clothes horse after Elizabeth Taylor, while period royalty Peter Ustinov and Robert Morley, not to mention Peter...
A few films in this list have apocalyptic overtones, but Spike Milligan’s adapted play about the fragments of post-WWIII Britain restoring order...
Peter Cook’s leap up cinema’s creative pecking order from the purgatory of Wrong Box cameo work takes the same shape as many...
Oooh, ambiguity ahoy! Is he a gardener? Is he gay? Is he Stan Laurel? Is he Jesus? Is he – chortle –...
From the chimes of Big Ben over the London Films sig at the beginning, to the closing notes of the barrel organ...
Bluffing campanologist Bing Crosby waves a selection of clapperless hand bells while shouting “A-ding! Ding!”, and gets perennially interrupted by Ingrid Bergman...
Time took its toll on Chuck Heston and his reputation and suddenly it seemed that his stature was reduced from the level...
The second in the self-generating ‘Apes series’ (see: cinematic terms onlt Roddy McDowall ever uses), this is top drawer weirdness, with James...
Would you get Philip Saville in to direct a Denis Norden script about whoring? Philip ‘Both versions of Sir Gawain and the...
A cinematic rehash, no less, of the mushroom gatherer’s toppermost sketches and songs up to 1974, so don’t expect the likes of...
Brian Dennehy is a cop who also writes books – which obviously aren’t very good or he wouldn’t still be on the...
Currently being prosecuted under the Trades Descriptions Act in a double case with The Never Ending Story.
There have been many great dramatic works in recent years based on reversing the order of events – Memento, *that* Seinfeld episode…...
Oh for those innocent days when the words “Tom Hanks” weren’t the verbal equivalent of a barbed wire fence around the cinema...
We’ll take Messrs. Zucker, Abrahams and Zucker as read here, because this unfairly maligned Airplane!-on-wheels is, to our mind, every bit as...
Victor Mature’s circus is in financial trouble, but Red Buttons and a Niagara Falls publicity stunt come to the rescue. It’s taken...
The best theme tune ever written, with a film to accompany it.
It’s a corker! With Gerald Thomas directing, Peter Rogers producing, Eric Rogers scoring and Talbot Rothwell writing, this is like an early...
The Christopher Guest film no-one ever mentions! This is more like it. Kevin Bacon is a wet-behind-the-ears film student who wins some...
That’s Michael Winner’s The Big Sleep, before you get any bright ideas about reaching for that blank tape. Still, the ’70s UK...
We won’t stop asking until someone gives us a satisfactory answer – what *was* it with ’80s Hollywood and the ’50s? More...
Jack Burton and the Pork Chop Express roll out once again in this cracking little piece of drivel with Pat Morita, James...
Jan-Michael ‘Stringfellow’ Vincent, Charlene ‘Lucy’ Tilton and Robert ‘Freddy’ Englund star in this surfing ‘n’ slacking spectacle. Time for a master class...
Another secret service knock-off from serial budget-dodger Lindsay Shonteff. Buxom Diana Rigg-alike Linda Marlowe is secret agent Harriet Zapper, driving round London,...
Michael Caine finds there’s more than weak lemon drink in his flask in this ditzy sequel to The Ipcress File, directed with...
Wheeled out occasionally as a public service to prove that Jessica Tandy was in more than two films. Horror, though? We ask you…
You’ve got wonder what Anthony Perkins is doing in this. Live action Disney adventures really did feature some of the most extraordinary...
It seems South London has forever existed on screen as a “gritty”, downbeat and generally pity-garnering backdrop for tales of poverty, crime...