Browsing: Movies – C

William Friedkin’s typically intense thriller finds Al Pacino overacting alarmingly as clear-eyed New York cop Steve Burns who leathers up and enters the gay, sadomasochistic…

Terry Zwigoff’s landmark film is an intimate documentary portrait of the underground comic artist Robert Crumb, whose unique drawing style and sexually and racially provocative…

17-year-old Jimmy Wallace (Jack Nicholson in his film debut) is brutally beaten by Manny Cole (Brett Halsey) and two of his teenage punk friends, Joey…

Richard Attenborough’s Cry Freedom is in the same league as his award-winning Gandhi (1982) – a rare, uplifting film that manages to thrill and excite its audience, glueing you…

This 1958 film set in the Ranelagh House for Deprived Children provides a fascinating look at social work and how different things were in the…

Vincent Price returns here to Witchfinder General territory as the sadistic magistrate Lord Edward Whitman who is obsessed with tracking down and punishing those who…

A man is wrongly accused of a brutal attack on a woman (offscreen) but swears the real rapist is a look-alike in this adult television…

Set in Baltimore in 1954, John Waters’s hilarious send-up of Grease (1978) and Jailhouse Rock (1957) revolves around juvenile delinquent and Elvis lookalike Wade “Cry-Baby” Walker (Johnny…

A small IRA terrorist group led by ruthless idealist Jude (Miranda Richardson) and Maguire (Adrian Dunbar) kidnap Jody (Forest Whitaker), a black British soldier serving…

Crystal Voyager – a surfing biography about legendary design innovator and photographer George Greenough – is one of the most beautiful surfing movies ever made and one…

Another lightweight vehicle for British cabaret/beat group Freddie and The Dreamers who were topping the charts in the US when production began in 1965 -…

Castle Rock, Maine is a sleepy New England town. A place where families can live in peace. But today Cujo, a full-grown St Bernard, isn’t…

This Children’s Film Foundation production followed the kids of Barton United – a junior football team based in Barton-upon-Irwell, Eccles (Lancashire), who were trying to…

Jack Hardacre (Robert Donat), a be-medalled sergeant, returns to his Lancashire home from the Middle East on 21 days’ leave. He is engaged to Janey…

This was the classic that single-handedly revived traditional British Gothic and firmly placed the Hammer House of Horror on the global gore map. Peter Cushing…

Though burnt for her sins three centuries earlier, the presence of the “black witch” is still felt in the village of Greymarsh. When Robert Manning…

When Inspector Clouseau goes missing, Interpol’s computer is secretly programmed by Clouseau’s boss (Herbert Lom) to select the world’s worst detective to search for his…

Hammer’s stab at the werewolf legend may look tame compared to later computerised transformations, but this was shocking stuff in its day, and much horrid…

Made back-to-back with Dimension 5, this anti-Communist sci-fi effort stars a tired-looking Michael Rennie (who died four years later at the age of 61) as…

Lovely Susan Winter (Gloria Talbott) engages pilot Lee Brand (Tom Drake) and organises an expedition deep into the wilds of Mexico in the hope of…