A fun blaxploitation-comedy-musical about the fortunes of a motorcycling black female vocal group as their leader, Syreena (Trina Parks,) investigates the disappearance of her mother,…
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John Schlesinger’s quite brilliant, if savage, slashing attack on the new rich is a story of a young girl whose desire for the good things…
Lili Smith (Julie Andrews) is Britain’s favourite singing entertainer and the darling of the Tommies on leave in London from the First World War battlefront.…
Director Wolfgang Petersen’s 1981 World War II drama Das Boot (“The Boat”) was nominated for six Academy Awards – a virtual “mission impossible” for any foreign…
Too young to know. Too wild to care. Too eager to say “I Will!” Danny (Gary Clark) and Sue (Marlo Ryan) are a young couple…
A British film about a pirate radio ship featuring performances by Kenneth Cope, Patsy Rowlands and the late great Kenny Everett. Police foil a racket…
This English-language Belgian/French/West German co-production – a smorgasbord of 1930s-style glamour meets art school cool meets vampirism – was originally released as Les Lèvres Rouges…
Kevin Kline plays Dave Kovic – an ordinary guy who runs a small employment agency in Baltimore. There isn’t much to notice about Dave, except the…
Davy Morgan (Harry Secombe) is the most important (and most talented) member of a third-rate family knockabout music-hall comedy act called The Mad Morgans who…
George Romero’s Night Of The Living Dead (1968) is a low budget classic. He made it for about $114,000 and grossed over $10 million, with the film…
The film Dawn! may have been made on the assumption that Australians never lose interest in their sports champions as long as the myth of ill-fortune attends…
The Day After, a dramatisation of the effects of a hypothetical nuclear attack on the United States (after a Soviet attack on Germany sparks World…
Based on a play by Peter Nicholas and scripted by the author (based on the real-life experiences he and his wife had in coping with…
The last film in George A Romero’s classic original zombie trilogy, Day of the Dead was generally considered to be the weakest of the three…
In early 1963, having failed in its effort to kill General de Gaulle, the hard-line French Secret Army Organization (OAS), under the leadership of Colonel…
Based on Nathanael West’s 1939 novel of the same name, The Day of the Locust is an oft-forgotten entry into 1970s filmmaking obsessed by the…
A shower of meteorites produces a glow that blinds 99% of the population of the world. Enter the Triffids – sinister giant plants from space whose…
Simultaneous atom bomb tests by the Americans and Russians at the two poles shift the Earth’s axis and put the planet on a collision course…
One of the most influential science fiction films of all time, 1951’s The Day the Earth Stood Still was a parable for the nuclear age, a warning…
Michael Cacoyannis’s follow-up to his highly acclaimed Zorba the Greek (1964) couldn’t have been more different, or more of a disappointment: a ham-fisted satire that falls…