Few filmmakers have the guts (or the gall) to actually try to make a bad film. John De Bello was one of the bold few.…
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Eccentric doll manufacturer Mr Franz (John Hoyt) of Dolls, Inc. gets lonely and starts reducing people to marionette size so they’ll be his obedient “friends”…
Fragile Fox is an American rifle company occupying a town in Belgium near the frontline in the closing days of WWII. They are commanded by…
Veteran director Val Guest decided in the early 1970s to venture into the then-popular market of sex comedies and having watched Danish box-office successes Bedroom…
This Second World War drama was based on French director Louis Malle’s own childhood experiences. In Nazi-occupied France a 12-year-old boy is sent to a strict…
Before The Silence of the Lambs (1991) revitalised his career, Anthony Hopkins hammed it up in less successful movies like Audrey Rose. Directed by Robert Wise…
This witty and heart-warming Technicolor comedy was based on the phenomenally successful novel and Broadway and London plays concerning a batty Bohemian who, following the…
Having escaped from a maximum-security prison, bald, megalomaniacal supervillain Dr Evil (Mike Myers) and his mean minuscule accomplice Mini-Me (Verne Troyer) join forces with perverted,…
It’s swinging 1967. The vicious though childish Dr Evil (Mike Myers) – who has failed to kill his arch-enemy, British secret agent Austin Powers (also…
When its predecessor, Austin Powers, International Man of Mystery, was released in 1997 nobody took much notice initially, but the often puerile comedy went on to…
This 1975 ‘Ozploitation’ pretend documentary – shot on 16mm film then blown up to 35mm for distribution – looks at a random collection of stories…
An ill-cast but effective Al Pacino is having a host of domestic troubles as playwright Ivan Travalian. His wife has left him for a guy…
This colourful nine-minute animated film from the British studios of Halas and Batchelor looked ahead to the future world of the year 2000 with a…
Avanti! is Italian for “enter” and Billy Wilder’s most neglected masterpiece is a sublime romantic comedy which is as sensitive as it is hilarious. Jack Lemmon is…
It is the year 2154. When his twin brother is killed in a robbery, paraplegic former Marine Jake Sully (Sam Worthington) decides to take his…
The cult 1960s TV series gets royally shafted by Hollywood in this stunningly designed blockbuster that’s stunningly awful in every other department. Ralph Fiennes and…
This sequel to Angel (1984) has former teen hooker Molly “Angel” Stewart (now played by Betsy Russell replacing winsome Donna Wilkes, star of the first…
This true story is adapted from a 1973 book by Dr Oliver Sacks, a clinical neurologist who in a New York hospital in 1969 used…