Fuelled by paranoia and dripping with low-key terror, Invasion of the Body Snatchers put the fear of pod into audiences across the world. Based on Jack Finney’s…
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This excellent remake of the 1956 classic – in fact, arguably one of the greatest remakes of all time – was directed by Phillip Kaufman…
Originally intended to be a serious film but gradually developed into a comedy, this American-International Pictures flick was released as half of a double feature…
Major Freddie Oppenheimer (Bill Travers) – who has lost a leg – is in a British Army Rehabilitation Hospital in 1942 during the early days…
A load of terrorists land on a Florida beach on a bright moonlit night in several dozen World War II-vintage landing craft, board a fleet…
A ten-year-old boy and Robby the Robot team up to prevent a supercomputer from controlling the Earth from a satellite. Edmund Cooper’s original short story…
This classic Cold War thriller about Western scientists being brainwashed is a bold and gritty contrast to the lightweight spoofery of Ipcress contemporaries such as Matt Helm…
The songs are gone, but the Broadway musical about the life of a French whore in Pigalle (the seedy red-light district of Paris) retains the…
The American millionaire owner of TransGlobal Airlines, Paul Fisher (future Gilligan’s Island star Alan Hale Jr.), travels to England with his family to consider buying…
In 2008, few people outside comic book hardcore had even heard of Iron Man, and its star, Robert Downey Jr., was far from the box-office…
Steely-eyed Alan Ladd stars as Jim Bowie, famed inventor of the knife – the “iron mistress” – that bears his name, in this would-be rip-roaring…
Captain Vinka Kovalenko (Katharine Hepburn) – a serious-minded and officious female pilot from the Soviet Union – defects to the West because of the way…
Jack Nicholson and Meryl Streep both deliver tour-de-force performances as drunken Depression-era drifters plagued by their pasts. Francis (Nicholson) is haunted by memories of the…
Paris in 1944 is still under German occupation, and as the Allies move in the direction of the French capital, Hitler appoints Brigadier General Dietrich…
This Aussie made-for-TV movie finds Kate Hersey (Tina Grenville) returning home from a sanatorium after recuperating from a nervous breakdown. While she was away, her…
Laurie Vining (Bonar Colleano, hired to provide international appeal) is an American naval officer stationed in England. He is getting ready to go on his…
A remarkable film by any standards, Isadora is based on two works: My Life by Isadora Duncan (a dancer in the 1920s who forever changed people’s ideas of ballet…
Lyle Rogers (Warren Beatty) and Chuck Clarke (Dustin Hoffman) are good-natured but hopelessly talentless New York songwriters and lounge singers. When the women in their…
Set in 1907, this Disney film opens in London, where wealthy aristocrat Sir Anthony Ross (Donald Sinden) hires visiting American archaeologist Professor Ivarsson (David Hartman)…
Margot Seaton (Dorothy Dandridge) is a self-confident drugstore salesgirl who is invited to crash a Government House reception by her labour-leader-politico boyfriend, David Boyeur (Harry…