We quite like this poorly received update of the whole Shane thing. Firstly it’s got Crint ‘Clint’ Eastwood in it and not...
The first outing for Painless Potter, directed by Norman ‘The Right Kind of Monkey Business’ MacLeod and with plenty of input from...
Charles Laughton and Gregory Peck don the wigs and take to a bloody massive Old Bailey set to prosecute suspected spouse poisoner...
All conspiracy theory films made between 1965 and 1980 are great, even the dire ones, but Alan J Pakula’s gloriously shot journey...
Take a trip back to when the British film industry did period drama because they were good at it, not just because...
Margaret Rutherford gets another place in the list as the unintentional star of this great Ealing comedy. Pimlico turns out to be...
Dirk Bogarde and Corrie’s Alan Bradley predate McQueen and co. with this strikingly similar great escape adventure. Apropos nothing at all, we...
We’ve never been Kubrick fans, it is fair to say. Quite what all the fuss is about is rather beyond us. Does...
This isn’t the dodgy Euro-sexcom with Ingmar Bergman’s daughter flogging hooky paintings, but yet another caper comedy, in which dissatisfied wife Natalie...
High gloss comedy caper with a very British crew. Stanley Baker is the bank insider with the scheme, and louche, decadent but...
Give us this camped-up Faust over Rocky Horror any day. Paul ‘Evergreen’ Williams performs copyright theft on William ‘Eaten Alive’ Finlay, who...
‘What *are* ants?’ King of the ant attack movies (until, of course, we get Ant Attack: the Movie, filmed entirely in one...
It’s a British International Picture! Coming before Hitchcock’s famed Blackmail but after Week-End Wives with Peter Dandy George, this silent classic is...
The Cosmic Wheels really were coming off Donovan's wagon by the early seventies.
Doris and Rock exercise their chance to be Famous on the Phone. Boasting a lot of telephonic conversations, this inevitably has lashings...
Mid-period mad scientist slapstick of Sellers vs. Lom – stand by to tick off Lesley-Anne Down, Burt Kwouk, Leonard Rossiter, Richard ‘Slartibartfast’...
Here’s the first of the films, with David Niven as Sir Charles Phantom (the notorious pink Litton), Robert Wagner and John Le...
Slightly too clever Brit version of The Dirty Dozen, with Michael Caine leading a rag-tag band of ex-cons through North Africa to...
5C’s well-meaning and liberal form teacher has his work cut out convincing senior teaching staff that his form won’t cock around too...
Now that Kim Cattrall’s fully ensconced as an international taboo-breaking doyenne of sophisticated comedy, what better time to show this? Apparently that...
Christ, time flies, doesn’t it? We remember going to see this one at the cinema when it came out, and thinking Bobcat...
We’ve had the chance to review every one of the first five Police Academy films now (the core canon, the Pentateuch, if...
This ‘film’ raises a few pertinent questions: how did Bobcat Goldthwaite manage to forge a career out of talking in a funny...
Proving once again that there’s nothing ghosts hate more than a middle-aged woman with an annoying voice (cf. Ethel Meaker in Rentaghost).
Derided universally for being a misbegotten assault on all six senses, and with a large amount of good reason too, but what...
The Lange-Nicholson one, and no, they’re *not* doing it for real. Interestingly, when we put “postman always rings twice” into the IMDb,...
Fresh from playing Derek Flint, perhaps the most famous ‘name’ spoof Bond of all, James Coburn is cast as the titular White...
Gene Hackman abuses teenage girls and makes them into sausages. Lee Marvin goes off to sort him out. Bob Wilson and David...
Maggie Smith won an Oscar for her portrayal of the eponymous character in this adaptation of the well known Muriel Spark private...
Roughly equivalent to two dozen editions of Man Alive chopped into bits and then reassembled at random.
Peter Watkins makes The War Game. The Beeb are told by Powers Unnamed to bin it. The Beeb bin it. Watkins, never...
Was William Hickey ever young? Like Alan Whicker and Cliff Michelmore he seems to have been privvy to the Fountain of Eternal...
Chances aren’t that you’ll remember the gruff-voiced dumbcracking pig-faced puppet alien who filled up a gap in ITV’s mid-afternoon weekend schedules in...
Low-budget 1971 British film about a “sinister and menacing” (albeit middle-class) motorcycle gang called ‘The Living Dead’ who terrorise and wreak early...
Ah, the killer electricity film. Clearly going after the Poltergeist ‘PG horror’ ticket, a lil’ boy and his single dad come up...
Hancock’s other film is a bit dark and not as much fun as The Rebel, we’re saying. As a seaside Punch and...
Remember when you could last stomach Tom Hanks? This stand-up romance marks the last gasp of the pre-rot stage for us, as...