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…
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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…
This remarkable animated French/Czech science-fiction fantasy – conceived by Roland Topor and René Laloux and originally released as La Planète Sauvage – is set in…
This incredible documentary set the surfing community afire on its release in 1969, receiving more acclaim than Bruce Brown’s Endless Summer (1966), the pioneer in surfing…
A defecting Czech scientist narrowly escapes an attack by Russian spies. Injured in the escape, the scientist suffers a potentially fatal blood clot in his…
Perhaps Fantasy Man is a comedy. It’s hard to tell. Perhaps it’s a satire? There are moments when the menopausal melodramatics of Nick Bailey (Harold Hopkins) approach the…
An overlong and somewhat plodding screen treatment of Thomas Hardy’s novel about a beautiful English farm girl who affects the lives of three men. John…
Frederick Henry (Rock Hudson), an American serving as a volunteer ambulance driver with the Italian forces in the First World War, is wounded and falls…
Written and (somewhat freely) adapted by director John Milius from Pierre Schoendoerffer’s 1969 novel, Farewell to the King stars Nick Nolte as an American GI (he…
The Coen brothers (director/writer Joel and producer/writer Ethan) are on top form with this quirky, unconventional, comedy-tinged crime thriller set in snowy Northern Minnesota. Car…
Naive Scotsman Murdoch Troon (Stanley Baxter), an enthusiastic member of the local cycling club, is involved in an accident with wealthy and arrogant businessman Commander…
Shot on Super 16mm film and then blown up to 35 mm for theatrical release, this Australian film revolved around 15-year-old Steve Carson (Rod Zuanic),…
“Fast cars. Fast girls. Fast carrots . . . Fast carrots??” Author Cameron Crowe based Fast Times at Ridgemont High on his real-life observations when he returned…
The film opens on vertical audio patterns oscillating in sync with an over-stimulated narrator pontificating about the violent nature of the female gender and the connection…
Roy Orbison plays Johnny Banner, a Confederate army officer who sports an acoustic guitar that converts with James Bond-like speed into a rifle to fight…
This is a heavily compassionate chronicle of the last days of a boozing Californian ex-boxer who tries to get back in shape for one final…
Michael Douglas made two films in 1987 that hit a nerve and captured the prevailing respective cultural sentiments of “Greed is good” and “Sex is…
After a Mediterranean honeymoon. Dexter Munro (Stanley Baxter) and his new wife Juliet (Sally Smith) are forced to move in with Sir Beverley Grant (James…
Following the attack on Pearl Harbour, a scruffy, whisky-swilling South Sea recluse named Walter Eckland (Cary Grant) is coerced by the local Australian naval commander…
This superb domestic comedy brilliantly illustrates a fond father’s reactions to the many problems – mostly financial – which arise during preparations for his only…