In this unofficial sequel to Purple Rain (1984), The Kid (Prince) is now partners with the venal Morris Day in the Glam Slam nightclub. But…
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James Anders (Edward G Robinson), a quiet mild-mannered history professor at an American school in Rio de Janeiro, retires and goes to New York to…
Millionaire’s daughter Paula Powers (Nancy Morgan) steals her dad’s Rolls Royce and heads off to Las Vegas to get married to Sam Freeman (Ron Howard).…
On the death of their father, David (Eric Foster) and Lynn (Kim Valentine) are taken to live with their only known relatives, their Grandmother (Ida…
Earl and Lady Rhyall – Victor (Cary Grant) and Hillary (Deborah Kerr) – are down on their luck to the point that they are inviting…
Christine Adams (Jacqueline Bisset) is the grasshopper of the title. We first meet her, aged 19, in her Canadian home town near the US border,…
It’s easy to sneer at Grease and dismiss it as a relic of the ’70s like Space Dust and The Bay City Rollers. But while it may recall…
This unprepossessing sequel to the massive John Travolta/Olivia Newton-John hit is notable for a great title song by the Four Tops (Back to School Again) and…
Robert Downey Sr. set Greaser’s Palace in 1837 in the Old West, where the wicked and permanently constipated Seaweedhead Greaser (Albert Henderson) not only owns the money…
When Dennis Quaid – all duded out and blonded up as Jerry Lee Lewis – swaggers to the stage to pump a piano and sing…
In March 1944, the German High Command has selected a group of their most escape-prone British, American and Canadian prisoners of war and placed them…
Against a background of hot jazz, Prohibition and wild parties, mysterious young millionaire Jay Gatsby (Robert Redford) becomes involved in Long Island high society. His…
Alongside Alan Hopgood’s And the Big Men Fly, Oakley’s A Salute to the Great McCarthy (1968) is probably the best-known fictional work about Australian Rules Football. Director David Baker…
Set in 1897 and based on the Basil of Baker Street series of books by Eve Titus, this animated Disney film tells the story of…
A frog and a bear as identical twins? A pig fashion model? Only in the world of Jim Henson’s Muppets could anyone get away with…
In 1908, the Great Leslie (Tony Curtis, all in white as befits a fine hero) and Professor Fate (Jack Lemmon in top comedic form and…
The Great Rock ‘n’ Roll Swindle was Malcolm McLaren’s self-aggrandising, self-congratulatory rewrite of recent history. His beloved Sex Pistols figured only as puppets, with McLaren tugging…
As he approaches manhood, Ben Meechum (Michael O’Keefe) struggles to win the approval of his demanding alpha male father, Bull (Robert Duvall), an aggressively competitive,…
Set in 1989 amongst the snowy mountains of Utah, The Great Silence is one of the darkest and most unforgiving tales of vengeance violence. Jean-Louis Trintignant stars…
Leaving a notorious trail of arson behind them, the St. Trinians schoolgirls are always on the move. When we last saw them in The Pure Hell…