F/X offers a different twist on the run-of-the-mill homicide movie as special effects are the key ingredient of the plot. The special effects are the…
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A clever animated fable about the titular Baron who lives in a castle and delights in entertaining his friends with tall stories of derring-do. When the…
Frank and Jack Baker (real-life brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges) are a cocktail lounge piano duo who content themselves playing to empty bars night after night. But…
Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) is sentenced to death by beheading in China in front of his captor, Scotland Yard’s Commissioner Nayland Smith (Nigel Green) as…
In director John Woo’s over-the-top blockbuster, Nicolas Cage plays Castor Troy, a lunatic terrorist who, having planted a bomb somewhere in LA, is put into…
Based on the 1960 novel of the same name by author Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 is an insightful study of our society and the fears of the…
It is early morning in America. In New York, air force commander General Black (Dan O’Herlihy) is woken by a recurring nightmare and leaves his…
Jessica (Cassandra Delaney) is a young woman running a wildlife sanctuary in the Australian outback who comes into confrontation with three redneck kangaroo hunters. Bored…
This R-rated spoof of classic fairy tale characters begins when the Prince (Don Sparks) turns 21 and discovers he must sire an heir or lose…
This convoluted spy thriller stars Timothy Hutton as college dropout Christopher Boyce who obtains US secrets and – with his drug-addicted buddy Daulton Lee (Sean…
Based on Edgar Allan Poe’s famous short story, this American International Pictures production concerns an eccentric who firmly believes – not without reason – that…
Although superbly filmed in 70mm, The Fall of the Roman Empire feels cynical compared to the bombastic emphasis on scale and spectacle employed by Ben-Hur (1959)…
Falling Down is a powerful and disturbing study of one ordinary man’s descent into insanity fuelled by urban stress. It does not have a happy…
Fame was essentially an excuse for lots of limbs and leotards, and catchy music such as the title track sung by Irene Cara. A new school…
Nine-year-old Donna Peyton (Donna Butterworth) is orphaned when her father dies and leaves her with a $30 million fortune. Her late father’s attorney explains that…
This overlooked gem of 1960s film-making is a beautiful, bittersweet story of newlyweds Jenny (Hayley Mills in her first adult role) and Arthur (newcomer Hywel ‘Shelley’…
Young American Pat Carroll (Stefanie Powers) arrives in London to marry her fiancé Alan Glentower (Maurice Kaufmann) and decides to pay a visit to the…
Although considerably classier than Russ Meyer’s 1964 version and the 1968 Swedish soft-core interpretation, this is still a disappointingly bawdy dramatisation of John Cleland’s 1749…
The opening credits of Fantasm are overlaid on to extreme close-ups of a woman touching herself. After what feels like an eternity, creepy German sexologist…
This sequel to Fantasm (1976) revolves around a journalist called Libby (Angela Menzies-Wills) who is taking over the “Dear Collette” sex advice column at her newspaper…