An alien called Secundus (Danish bodybuilder Sven-Ole Thorsen) arrives on Earth with a laser gun and asks a woman called Sonia Murray (Marjorie Bransfield), “Are…
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Sally Field plays Megan Carter – a Miami reporter who has been working for the city’s leading newspaper for three years. She needs a scoop…
Ned Brainard (Fred MacMurray) is an eccentric Medfield College professor who is so engrossed in conducting experiments in his garage/lab, he forgets to turn up…
This highly stylised musical adaptation of Colin MacInnes’ novel celebrates the rise of teen culture in late-50s London with a mishmash of pop fashions and…
Father Goddard (Richard Burton), an austere and domineering schoolmaster-priest at a remote Roman Catholic boarding school in England, considers standout student Benjie Stanfield (Dominic Guard)…
This underwater epic features spectacular deep-sea special effects and elaborate high-tech hardware. But the story is bewildering and shallow. The plot, which mainly involves a…
“Like a punch in the chest. Put together breath by breath, look by look, lust by lust, lie by lie. A compelling film”. The complex…
The Accidental Tourist is a quirky movie which manages to be intelligent, funny and deeply moving. Lawrence Kasdan’s faithful rendering of the Anne Tyler novel is…
Jodie Foster won her first Oscar, a Golden Globe and a BAFTA Award for her performance as rape victim Sarah Tobias in The Accused. It’s easy to…
On 30 January 1925, a man named William Floyd Collins became trapped underground while exploring a network of caves beneath his native Kentucky. Attempts to…
The main purpose of this movie is to showcase the Jerry Lewis-style antics of its star, Canadian comic Jim Carrey. He plays an inept, but…
Rubber-faced comedian Jim Carrey returned to the screen as the hyperkinetic sleuth from the previous year’s hit Ace Ventura, Pet Detective. Ace’s newest adventure found him…
A team of well-trained British fliers soars into action in the skies over Europe during World War I in this spirited remake of Journey’s End (1930) transposed…
Middle-class office workers Genna (Judy Wood), Chickie (Pat Barrington) and Fran (Lila Cranston Lamont) leave work on Friday afternoon and become weekend bikers, accompanied to…
Although it is often lumped in with the Blaxploitation boom of the early 70s, Across 110th Street is actually a gritty cop flick with a strong element of social…
Rod Steiger (in his first solo starring role) is Carl Schaffner, a crooked German-born businessman on the run from Scotland Yard and the FBI after…
Five women – Linda (Jo Ann Harris), Teresa (Connie Strickland), Karen (Lisa Moore), Nancy (Jennifer Lee Pryor) and Angie (Patricia Estrin) – team up and…
Carl Weathers, the former Oakland Raiders star who sparred with Sylvester Stallone in three Rocky movies, stars in the title role of Sgt. Jericho ‘Action’…
While other films of the time were banned and condemned by the Catholic Church because of nudity, this Mexican Eastmancolor film was given an “A-3″…
This delightful follow-up to The Addams Family (1991) is blessed with an even blacker vein of humour than the original. Gomez and Morticia (Raul Julia and…