Master director Stanley Kubrick turned to the 18th-century novel by William Makepeace Thackeray for this costume drama about an Irish rogue who climbs to the…
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Watching Barry McKenzie Holds His Own today it’s difficult to believe that as a kid I was allowed to show this movie at my high school. The…
Bartleby (John McEnery) is a likeable yet unusual young man – painfully polite and good-natured – looking for work, purpose, and meaning. He gets a…
After some success on Broadway, New York playwright Barton Fink (John Turturro) moves to Hollywood to make it big as a screenwriter for Capitol Pictures…
Basic Instinct is a gimmicky thriller about a lesbian ice-pick killer on the rampage in San Francisco, although the plot is as illogical as the dizzying…
This gore-drenched, low-budget gutter-trash classic is one of the key horror movies of the 1980s. It tells the bizarre story of the Bradley brothers -…
A lover of shoddy exploitation movies since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, New York filmmaker Frank Henenlotter didn’t have to go to film school…
Basket Case 3 – the final instalment in Frank Henenlotter’s cult trilogy – abandons the gritty horror of the original and the sequel for extreme…
Maura Monti stars as Gloria, a renowned and affluent luchadora enmasculado (female masked wrestler) recruited by the police to investigate a series of murdered wrestlers…
There’s nothing like an old dark house for raising the goose pimples. If it happens to be haunted by a killer who calls himself “The…
With the instant popularity of the campy 1966 Batman TV series, 20th Century Fox decided a big-screen adventure was in order. Production commenced only six months…
American cinema box office receipts in 1989 totalled a record five billion dollars – Batman, Tim Burton’s incredibly over-hyped adaptation of the DC comic, accounted…
This movie, with Arnold Schwarzenegger as Mr Freeze (“you ah not sendink ME to der cooler!”), killed the Batman franchise for a decade, but there’s a…
Missing, presumed dead, billionaire Bruce Wayne (Christian Bale) is stuck in a Bhutanese prison when the mysterious Ducart (Liam Neeson) asks him to join ‘The…
Unlike the Tim Burton pictures, the Batman concept is treated here as a joke. The very first deadpan line from Batman (now a dead-faced Val…
Batman Returns pits the Dark Knight of Gotham City against a new gang of villainous fiends. Oswald Cobblepot (Danny De Vito) – alias The Penguin – is a…
The peace-loving inhabitants of the small planet Akir are threatened by a genetically deficient and vicious band of marauders led by the evil Sador (John…
In 1950, at the onset of the Korean War, the US Marines land on an enemy-controlled beach. Among the American units is a platoon commanded…
The final (and weakest) picture in the superb five-part Planet Of The Apes series, Battle centres on a war that will decide who will finally dominate the…
In 1965 bizarre phenomena cause disasters all over the world. The United Nations traces the destructive acts to alien forces called Natalians. At the Japanese…