An inspired account from Steven Spielberg of an alien who lands in a pine forest on the California coast and gets separated from his people…
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John Sturges’ entertaining adaptation of the Jack Higgins novel starts from a similar premise to that of Alberto Cavalcanti‘s Went the Day Well? Michael Caine is…
This Italian production (originally released as La Battaglia d’Inghilterra) combines a fourth-rate detective story with a fifth-rate war film to produce a sixth-rate waste of…
With the dairy he works for threatened with closure after a large company (Consolidated Dairies) moves onto their turf, calamity-prone milkman Norman Pitkin (Norman Wisdom…
American test pilot and astronaut Jeff Nolan (Willard Parker) returns to Earth to find the planet has been ravaged by robots that kill by touch…
Valley girl manicurist Valerie Dale (Geena Davis) initially thinks she is hallucinating when a spacecraft with three furry aliens crash-lands in her Los Angeles swimming…
Newlywed research scientist hero Dr Russell Marvin (Hugh Marlowe, back in the nation’s capital after surviving The Day the Earth Stood Still ) tries to…
This blockbuster disaster film had a dumb script and lacklustre acting, but great visual and aural effects. There are disasters galore as a massive earthquake strikes…
Caleb and Aron Trask are brothers living in Salinas Valley with their father in 1917. Their father is very religious, and while Aron is the…
The lure of sunken treasure on a Spanish wreck leads to romance between US Navy diver Ted Jackson (Elvis Presley) and Jo Symington – a go-go…
Road movies were never the same after Billy (Dennis Hopper) and Wyatt – aka Captain America (Peter Fonda) embarked on a magical mystery tour in…
Inspired by the 1964 Elvis Presley movie Roustabout, two young Irish men – Vinnie (Stephen Brennan) and his brother-in-law Arthur (Eamon Morrissey) – build a …
Peter Richardson’s film is more of a student prank than a subversive satire in the tradition of Buñuel’s The Exterminating Angel or Lindsay Anderson’s if……
Middle-class Los Angeles couple Paul and Mary Bland (brilliantly portrayed by coauthor and director Paul Bartel and Warhol superstar Mary Woronov) finance their dream restaurant…
This made-for-television movie presented John Mortimer’s dramatisation of a novel by John Fowles. Brash young art critic David Williams (Roger Rees) goes to interview Henry…
After learning that her husband, Phillip (Dermot Walsh), has been killed in a plane crash in Eastern Europe, Joan Scott (Australian actress Betty McDowall) is disturbed…
Tim Burton’s Ed Wood, starring Johnny Depp as Wood, brilliantly reconstructs the sleazy side of 1950s Hollywood, and is a sympathetic tribute to the director of…
In 1964, Eddie Wilson had it all. He had genius, he had vision, he had the hottest rock & roll band in the country. Then…
In 1955, an hour-long live television play called A Man Is Ten Feet Tall was broadcast on Philco Television Playhouse with Sidney Poitier starring as…
Adapted from Willy Russell’s play, Educating Rita retains its charm and poignancy in this cosy film version. Rita (Julie Walters in her feature film debut), a working-class…