Derek Jarman’s eulogy to punk is very much a product of the art school spirit of the time: incredibly pretentious and never dull. In the…
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Star Wars (1977) meets Ben-Hur (1959) in director Danny Cannon’s imaginatively over-the-top science-fiction rendering of the celebrated 2000 AD comic-strip hero. The year is 2139 AD, and…
Retired American district court judge Daniel Haywood (Spencer Tracy) is brought to Nuremberg to preside over the trials of the German judiciary at the end…
“Signal to all vessels. Am experiencing difficulties of an extraordinary nature. Would appreciate assistance if our position can be reached by dawn tomorrow” This SOS,…
Director François Truffaut presents cinema’s ultimate love triangle with Jeanne Moreau as the mercurial Catherine, the woman whom best friends and writers Jules (Oskar Werner)…
The runaway success of Emmanuelle, in which the lovely Sylvia Kristel had the title role, made another starring vehicle for her inevitable. And here it…
This relatively lesser-known version of Shakespeare’s play – compared to the more famous 1953 Marlon Brando film – was made in Britain but with a…
Jumanji is a children’s fantasy adventure film that consists mainly of horror, chaos and Robin Williams at his most unctuously endearing. The elaborate (though less than…
Racetrack dogsbody Willie Joy (Frankie Howerd) loses his job at the greyhound stadium, acquires a sick greyhound and is thrown out of his lodgings. He…
Nightclub entertainer Hap Smith (Jerry Lewis) has a new act since his former partner Chick Allen (Dean Martin) joined the army, with lovely new partner…
Mowgli, a young orphan boy, is found abandoned in the jungle and is raised by a pack of wolves in this classic Disney animated feature,…
This low-budget British crime film has vicious young working-class hoodlum Terry Collins (David McCallum) mugging an old man, who subsequently dies. Joe Lucas (Brian Weske)…
Steven Spielberg’s dinosaur thriller grossed over $900 million worldwide, demonstrating once again the director’s uncanny insight into what the public – especially the young -…
The Prime Minister (Richard Vernon) is angling for the youth vote but (stupidly) cutting the amount of pop music on television. Teenagers decide to reject…
Layabout disc jockey Sam Costa lies in bed and operates the first computerised, push-button hit parade in history. In addition to music the computer also…
Scilla Alexander (Wendy Craig) is sick of her TV producer husband, Lewis McKenzie (Francis Matthews). His love of the bottle and his flirtatious behaviour with…
Teenage thugs Monte (Joe Di Reda) and Tic-Tac (Richard Bakalyan) lead their gang of beach bum punks through a series of petty criminal acts interspersed…