In the wake of the success of Jaws came this tale of an 18-foot man-eating, rampaging bear who leaves behind a trail of death and…
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The Groove Tube is a medley of skits parodying television news, sports and children’s programmes, drama series and cooking shows, intermixed with fake commercials. As with…
Martin Q Blank (John Cusak) is a hitherto successful hit man who has just hit burnout. After a bungled job, he gets the chance to…
Mean-spirited TV weatherman Phil Connors (Bill Murray) is sent to cover the annual Groundhog Day festival at a small town called Punxsutawney, in Pennsylvania. Stranded by…
Based on Mary McCarthy’s best-selling novel of the same title, this film traces the lives of a group of women friends through the beginning of…
Pandering to the tabloid image of the time of hippies as irresponsible, amoral, drug-taking wasters, Groupie Girl presented the British youth of 1969 in the sleaziest way…
This blood horror movie from Herschell Gordon Lewis opens with a curious sequence of two Styrofoam wig stands speaking to each other, which then veers…
Lieutenant Roger Manley (Richard Carballo) is a cop who enjoys entrapping women for solicitation arrests and seems completely averse to sex – until a black…
Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn are unforgettable as the perplexed parents in this landmark 1967 movie about mixed marriage. Joanna Drayton (Katharine Houghton), is the…
In 1975, a Time magazine cover story introduced the world to the “Cannonball Baker Sea-to-Shining-Sea Memorial Trophy Dash,” better known as the Cannonball Run, an…
Gummo was the directorial debut of Kids scriptwriter Harmony Korine. The 23-year-old intended the film as a portrait of a financially, culturally, and spiritually depressed Middle America and…
Stephen Frear’s debut feature (produced by Albert Finney’s own company) is part pastiche and part traditional thriller, but despite its parody approach, Gumshoe works surprisingly well…
John Sturges’s staging of the famous battle between Wyatt Earp and the Clanton gang in Tombstone, Arizona, on 26 October 1881, was not the first…
Before he made the likes of Apollo 13 (1995), Ron Howard directed this small but often enjoyable comedy. When car factory foreman Hunt Stevenson (Michael Keaton)…
Set during the last days of the British Empire, Richard Attenborough plays Regimental Sergeant-Major Lauderdale, the martinet of an East African military outpost in the…
It is New Year’s Eve, and there are two interesting gatherings in the capital of the (fictional) South American republic of Tribulacion. One is the…
A stalwart band of Blighty’s finest heroes risk life and limb during WWII to destroy huge German gun emplacements threatening Allied ships in the Aegean…
Michael York stars as disaffected British rock star Tom Pickle (a thinly disguised George Harrison perchance) who travels to India looking to learn the sitar.…
Guys & Dolls is pretty much the most foolproof of the great musicals. For one thing, it was adapted from the eternally hilarious stories of Broadway’s…
Based on the memoirs of striptease queen Gypsy Rose Lee, the film follows her early years in vaudeville, which involved being dragged from one musical…