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…
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It’s 1801 in Odense, Denmark. Young Hans Christian Andersen (Paul O’Keefe) – known as Chris – lives with his father, Papa Andersen (Jack Gilford), a…
Take a star – here it’s top gun Tom Cruise – and mix in fast planes, bikes, cars or anything which makes a deafening noise,…
Joe Clay (Jack Lemmon) is a very successful San Francisco Public Relations man. Unfortunately, a big part of his job entails drinking booze – and…
Some of Hollywood’s hottest young talent cut their teeth on this ultra-hip movie, among them Matthew McConaughey, Parker Posey, Milla Jovovich, Ben Affleck and Adam…
“Welcome to Potters Bluff” Tourists and visitors to the sleepy coastal town of Potters Bluff, Maine, are being brutally murdered by the locals. What’s more…
When Australian naval officer John Ingram (Sam Neill) and his young wife Rae (Nicole Kidman) chance upon suave American nutter Hughie Warriner (Billy Zane), a therapeutic…
In the near future (the 1990s!) economic and environmental disasters have reduced society to chaos. To combat looting and marauding ‘car boys’, the authorities convert…
Offbeat Western starring Johnny Depp as penniless sissy Ohio accountant William Blake who arrives in the lawless Wild West town of Machine (where prostitutes perform…
Sean Penn gives a chilling and mesmerising portrayal of sociopathy, as Matthew Poncelet, a trailer trash multiple killer on death row with no sense of…
A good-natured spoof, in glorious black and white, on the detective genre, Dead Men Don’t Wear Plaid attempted (with varying degrees of success) to recreate film noir…
The year is 1959. John Keating (Robin Williams) is the new English professor at Welton Academy – a stuffy prep school tucked away in the hills…
David Cronenberg is not a director for the squeamish. In Dead Ringers, he returns to his obsession with – and seeming disgust at – the human body.…
Stephen King movies are a tricky lot – There have been over 40 movie and TV adaptations of his work, and for every Misery (1990) there is more…
Michael Caine plays recovered alcoholic cat burglar Henry Clarke, who finds himself enticed into the home of Fe Moreau (Giovanna Ralli), where he discovers an…
HC ‘Sapper’ McNeile’s debonair adventurer hero “Bulldog” Drummond was updated here to capitalise on the James Bond phenomenon. Richard Johnson may be a bit stuffy…
Vicki Robbins (Suzanna Leigh) is a pop singer who is suffering from exhaustion and collapses while performing a song on television. She is packed off…
This 1975 British psychological thriller begins with a violent escape from a lunatic asylum – but we don’t see who it was that escaped. Stephen Slade…
“I don’t want to become one of the living dead in Beverly Hills,” says plastic surgeon Bruce Willis in Robert Zemeckis’ black comedy Death Becomes Her.…
Death In Brunswick opens with an image that could be culled from any urban backstreet in Greece or Turkey. A hot wind whips along an empty…
