Inspired by the seven-verse nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll, Terry Gilliam’s directorial debut feature is an uneven mix of medieval tomfoolery and crude Monty Python…
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In Big (1988), Tom Hanks played a boy in the body of a man. This comedy-drama repeats the trick by casting Robin Williams as a ten-year-old…
With no pretension to anything other than the basest Z-movie thrills, this tale of a wise-cracking homicidal snowman is not to be confused with the Michael Keaton-starring…
Jack Frost (Michael Keaton) is an aspiring rock singer whose band – which includes Mark Addy from The Full Monty as his best friend and…
“AK-47. The very best there is. When you absolutely, positively got to kill every motherfucker in the room, accept no substitutes”. Imaginatively dragging Elmore Leonard’s…
This cheapie British crime melodrama tears a lively strip from the Police Gazette. Vicious “undesirable alien” Carl Stock (George Mikell) has been deported back to…
Jacob’s Ladder is a horror movie as an ethereal journey. Most of the film takes place in the spiritual world reenvisioned as the concrete environment…
Recently released from jail, Don Gregor (Clancy Malone) works for nasty bad guy Vic Brady (Timothy Farrell), who has a beautiful model moll called Loretta…
This is Elvis Presley’s glorious third movie, after Love Me Tender (1956) and Loving You (1957), when the snarl and talent were, for once, harnessed to a…
Norman Pett’s Jane comic strip originally appeared in the Daily Mirror from December 1932 to October 1959 featuring the misadventures of a hapless heroine who…
Three million dollars were spent on Jason and the Argonauts, mainly on the ‘Dynamation 90’ special effects created by Ray Harryhausen – and it was not…
In this 1993 addition to the Friday the 13th franchise (although New Line Cinema did not have the rights to the name “Friday the 13th”, hence the…
“You’re gonna need a bigger boat!” Summertime in Martha’s Vineyard, off the coast of Massachusetts: Breaking away from a hippie beach party, a young woman…
Three years after those infamous shark attacks, another great white swims into police chief Brody’s Amity resort town in this shameless sequel that’s a pale…
Called simply Jaws 3 for television and stripped of the one gimmick (3-D) that made it – arguably – acceptable in theatres, this hapless opus…
Amity has not suffered a shark attack in years, but the fears of Ellen Brody (Lorraine Gary) – the widow of Sheriff Brody – resurface…
Electrician Bert Harris (Anthony Newley) visits Chiselhurst Caves with his girlfriend Rene (Joyce Blair) but angers petty crooks Spider (James Booth), Holy Mike (David Lodge)…
Neil Diamond made his ‘acting’ debut as cantor’s son Yussel Rabinovitch who just wants to sing. Although outwardly following in the footsteps of his father,…
Returning to the subjects of lapsing time and unreliable memory that had informed all his earlier features, Alain Resnais harnessed that old sci-fi standby, the…
Robert Redford plays Johnson, the former soldier of the title who becomes a mountain-trapper in Utah in the 1850s after the Mexican-American war, surviving Indians,…