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…
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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…
Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Paul Zindel and directed by Paul Newman, this harrowing film is the story of Beatrice Hunsdorfer (Newman’s wife,…
Even by the standards of the Children’s Film Foundation (CFF), this 58-minute film is a painfully juvenile adventure which will test the patience of even…
“10,965 pyramids, 5,337 dancing girls, one million swaying bulrushes and 802 sacred bulls”. Based on a best-selling novel and renowned as the most expensive production…
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…
Originally titled Diciottenni al sole (and also known as Beach Party-Italian Style in some markets), this Italian film follows Nicole Molino (Catherine Spaak, niece of Belgian…
Charlton Heston is the legendary Rodrigo Diaz di Bivar – the Christian hero who rids Spain of the Moors in the 11th century – in…
Luke (Jim Brown), an escaped chain-gang prisoner in the post-Civil War West, is told of a fortune in government gold hidden by a Mexican general…
Gunfighter Cole Thornton (John Wayne) is invited to the western town of El Dorado to take part in a range war, working for Bart Jason…
It is obvious why El Topo was embraced by John Lennon, Dennis Hopper, Timothy Leary and their counterparts. It is a violent, brutal, confusing, occasionally fascinating and…
“He’s a good cop . . . on a big bike . . . on a bad road!” Robert Blake (later to star in TV…
This rapidly-released sequel to Breakdance (1984) finds the same lead characters using their dance talents once more to save their run-down community centre. Finding professional work…
Lenny Von Dohlen plays Miles, a geeky architect who is having a hard time keeping his schedule and various projects organised, so he buys a (then-state-of-the-art)…
Robert Redford and Jane Fonda were well cast in Sydney Pollack’s The Electric Horseman – He as former rodeo champion Sonny Steele now reduced to advertising…
Producer Mel Brooks fought for years to bring the true story of John Merrick – cruelly nicknamed the ‘Elephant Man’ due to his large tumours…
The full title of the movie is actually A Faithful Narrative of the Capture, Sufferings and Miraculous Escape of Eliza Fraser, which is supposed to give…
This historical drama set in the 16th century – starring Cate Blanchett and Geoffrey Rush and charting the turbulent life and times of the self-proclaimed…
Based on the Sinclair Lewis novel, which blew up a storm of controversy when it was published in 1927, Elmer Gantry stars Burt Lancaster in the title…
In addition to being a passable comedy-horror film, Elvira, Mistress of the Dark (1988) is probably the most extravagant breast fetish movie since the days…