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 when their spaceship is forced…
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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 (pictured at right) is Colonel Kurt…
With the dairy he works for threatened with closing after a large company (Consolidated Dairies) moves onto their turf, lone milkman Norman Pitkin (Norman Wisdom in his first colour outing)…
Astronaut Jeff Nolan (Willard Parker) returns to Earth to find the planet has been ravaged by robots that kill by touch and then reanimate their victims as eyeless zombies. He joins…
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 pool. The ship from the planet…
Hero research scientist Hugh Marlowe, back in the nation’s capital after surviving The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951), tries to prevent an invasion of the Earth after aliens abduct his father-in-law. He slows…
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 Los Angeles, all in glorious…
Wild adolescent Cal Trask finds out that his mother, long believed dead, is actually running a brothel in a nearby town. The discovery proves traumatic for Cal and signals 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 dancing yoga student (Dodie Marshall).…
Road movies were never the same after Billy (Dennis Hopper) and Wyatt – aka Captain America (Peter Fonda) embarked on a magical mystery tour in a quest for “the real…
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… Waiter Alex loses his job…
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 by advertising for wealthy swingers…
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 such low-budget gems of the…
In 1964, Eddie Wilson had it all. He had genius, he had vision, he had the hottest rock & roll band in the country. Then suddenly one night his car…
Adapted from Willy Russell’s play, Educating Rita retains its charm and poignancy in this cosy film version. Rita, (Julie Walters) a working-class hairdresser with a sharp wit, is married to Denny, and…
Rather than follow the hugely successful Batman (1989) with another special effects-driven bonanza, director Tim Burton instead delivered a delightfully realised movie that was about as far from a mainstream Hollywood blockbuster…
One night while driving home, hapless Roxy Miller (Marilyn Manning) almost runs down a giant caveman who has survived in a cave in the Californian desert with his mummified relatives…
As an April Fool prank, taxi driver Tom Banning (Richard Attenborough) is led to an abandoned bomb-site by an eight-year-old girl. The youngster is later found murdered and Manning is…
Originally titled Diciottenni al sole (and also known as Beach Party-Italian Style in some markets), this Italian film follows Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak), a French teenager on vacation at the Italian…
Charlton Heston is the legendary Rodrigo Diaz di Bivar – the Christian hero who rids Spain of the Moors in the 11th century – in this lavish, opulent historical epic.…
