Can’t Stop the Music was produced by Allan Carr – who was also responsible for the mega-musical Grease (1978) – as a vehicle for the promotion…
Browsing: Movies – C
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Laura Barkley (Judy Geeson) is heading to Spain to meet her sister in a small rural town where she’s photographing some old paintings for a…
Filmed at Pinewood Studios in England and on location in Warwickshire, Buckinghamshire and Shropshire, this live-action Disney film opens in Los Angeles where 14-year-old juvenile…
One of the most underrated films of the 1960s, Candy uses the lascivious adventures of your average, innocent, teenage sexpot (played by doe-eyed 19-year-old Swedish…
“It started as such a simple crime, but for 16-year-old Candy, dying would have been easier! Was a piece of Candy worth a fortune in…
This sex comedy revolved around three voluptuous young (high school-aged) volunteer nurses – or “candy stripers” – at Oakwood Hospital. Marisa Valdez (María Rojo) has…
Ron Lewis (John Daniels) is a mild-mannered suburban LA businessman who, unknown to his family, is also the “Black Baron,” a Hollywood pimp with a…
Chicago student Helen Lyle (Virginia Madsen) is researching a paper on urban myths, including that of the Candyman, a spirit with a hook hand who…
A marine biologist – and former baseball player – befriends a group of down-and-outs, changing his life irrevocably in this drama based on the John Steinbeck novel…
This Canadian-produced horror spoof by future SCTV stars starts when a young couple, Clifford (Eugene Levy) and his girlfriend Gloria (Andrea Martin,) experience car trouble and are…
A young American film crew vanishes in the Colombian rainforest while shooting an anthropology documentary. Their footage, found with their remains and boldly retrieved by…
David Carradine stars as Coy “Cannonball” Buckman, a onetime top racer who landed in prison following a car wreck that left his old girlfriend dead.…
So successful was The Cannonball Run (1981) with its all-star cast, that a sequel was a foregone conclusion. But how do you cast the sequel to…
The Cannonball Run is a mindlessly stupid film, described by critic Jeffrey Lyons as making Smokey and the Bandit look like Richard III. Ostensibly about a cross-country motor race on…
Coming between The Decameron and Arabian Nights in Pier Paolo Pasolini’s classic tales trilogy, this bawdy adaptation of Chaucer’s 14th-century masterpiece outraged the purists. Pasolini…
A grim thriller about Max Cady, an ex-convict who seeks revenge on Sam Bowden – the meek lawyer he believes responsible for his eight-year prison sentence.…
Martin Scorsese’s surprising remake of the 1962 Cape Fear affords a masterly demonstration of his technical virtuosity but eschews the creepy realism of the original to play…
The later movies of Doris Day now look like period artefacts: here she plays Patricia Foster – an agent (“The Spy Who Came in from…
This ingenious thriller takes a popular conspiracy theory – did the Americans really land on the Moon or did they fake it in a TV…
In 18th-century England, the Royal Crown sends Royal Navy Captain Collier (Patrick Allen) and his crew to investigate reports of illegal smuggling and bootlegging in…
