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…
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Dr Jekyll, a mild-mannered but eccentric surgeon and researcher at a private hospital in Los Angeles, accidentally snorts some of the white powder potion he…
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,…
Adopting behaviour patterns reminiscent of Jerry Lewis in his heyday, comedian Steve Martin bulldozed his way through The Jerk, an uneven comedy whose hit-and-miss approach to…
“You had me at ‘Hello'” After a sudden realisation of his moral vacuity as a sports agent managing 72 clients, Jerry Maguire (Tom Cruise) writes…
It is the early 1880s and Dr Frankenstein’s evil granddaughter Maria (Narda Onyx) has moved to the American West with her brother Rudolph (Steven Geray)…
Director Norman Jewison took the Andrew Lloyd Webber/Tim Rice rock opera out to desert locations in Israel to film an unconventional movie musical version of…
A group of bikers and their girlfriends are stopped at the border by police who discover heroin in their tyres – which has actually been…
Cy Endfield’s prototypical airborne disaster movie revolves around a threat to blow up a London-to-New York-bound flight from one of the passengers aboard, Ernest Tilley…
This spirited sequel to Romancing The Stone (1984) had Jack Colton (Michael Douglas) once again doing his very best Indiana Jones impersonation alongside romance novelist Joan Wilder…
Oliver Stone’s massive, three-hour JFK is powerful, compelling, brilliantly written and directed, superbly acted by a stellar cast of luminaries with courage and conviction, and one of…
Called in to investigate an apparently minor crime (the theft of a file of leases from a local estate agent), the Brighton CID follow a…
Workaholic mattress salesman Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is so busy at work that he constantly neglects his family and disappoints his son, Jamie (the future…
17-year-old Joanna Sorrin (South African actress Geneviève Waïte), a wide-eyed and fanciful country girl, goes to London for a fashion design course. There, she dresses…
Director John G Avildsen’s violent “bigot-versus-counterculture” parable is very much a product of its conservative times, but its implausibility is tempered by strong performances. Peter…
A band of Mexicans – led by the charismatic Luis Chama (John Saxon), spouting revolutionary rhetoric and demanding land reform – find their ancestral claims…
Tom Hanks is a working stiff named Joe whose doctor (Robert Stack) tells him he only has a short time to live. Hearing the news, Joe…
Naive and wide-eyed aw-shucks Iowa boy Joe (Jerry O’Connell) moves to New York City to make his fortune. He has no job, prospects or friends…
Featuring a legendary comedy line-up, Joey Boy charts the wartime misadventures of a gang of London spivs who decide that a tour of duty with…
It’s June 1953 and two children from Dorset – John (Colin Gibson) and Julie (Lesley Dudley) – are eager to see the Coronation of Queen…