“I myself prefer a big, fat cucumber.” It’s April Fool’s Day, and the sisters of Sigma Alpha Pi have found the perfect place to throw…
Browsing: Movies A to K
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
This cut-price poppycock begins with husky seaman Thorne Sherman (James Best) arriving with supplies for Doctor Craigis (Baruch Lumet), a scientist working on an isolated…
A coach load of happy schoolgirls drives through the peaceful Lake District countryside, the sound of their singing echoing around them. Up on the hillside,…
Dr Douglas Martin (Peter Graves) is a nuclear scientist working on atomic bomb tests. While collecting aerial data on an atomic blast at Soledad Flats,…
Johnny (Robert Walker) and Carol (Diane Varsi) Warder (and her five-year-old son) are living a meagre but quiet life in post-World War II North Carolina…
Though sometimes unfavourably compared to the 1946 film noir masterpiece of the same name, director Don Siegel’s taut, terse adaptation of the Hemingway short story…
Filmed in Thailand by producer David (Chariots of Fire) Puttnam and director Roland Joffe, The Killing Fields is a vast and sprawling story about the friendship Pulitzer…
Residents of a row of terrace houses in Sydney, Australia, form an Action Group to fight a development company who want to buy the houses…
Veteran director Robert Aldrich’s intense adaptation of Frank Marcus’ play centres on the troubled relationship and long-time lesbian affair of two women. Lukas Heller’s screenplay…
Roger Avary co-wrote Pulp Fiction (1994) with Quentin Tarantino, and his debut feature as a director deals with many of the same themes. Eric Stoltz is…
This accomplished thriller based on Lionel White’s novel Clean Break was Stanley Kubrick’s third feature. Aged 27, he had made only Fear and Desire and Killer’s Kiss…
The “kind lady” of the title is the elderly, wealthy, and gracious spinster Mary Herries (Ethel Barrymore), a patron of the arts. Her kindness brings her…
Set in an industrial Lancashire town, A Kind Of Loving tells the bittersweet tale of Vic Brown (Alan Bates), a young draughtsman who falls for Ingrid (June…
This undemanding picture proves that Arnold Schwarzenegger can do comedy, provided he doesn’t try too hard. He plays tough Los Angeles cop John Kimble, who…
In Belgium in October 1917, young British soldier Private Arthur James Hamp (Tom Courtenay) is accused of desertion and accepts that a court martial will…
The King and I was another lavish Rodgers and Hammerstein musical, this time based on Anna Leonowens’ autobiographical novel Anna and The King of Siam. Originally a…
“It was a lovely day . . . for a little while.” Casablanca director Michael Curtiz was originally slated to make this film with James…
In a competitive rush to explore every conceivable spot on Earth for hidden sources of oil, the Petrox company has sent an expedition into Micronesia headed…
Filmed in New Zealand, Peter Jackson’s 2005 remake of King Kong is set during the Great Depression and follows struggling filmmaker Carl Denham (Jack Black)…
This live-action tie-in to the animated TV series King Kong (1966) was also produced by Rankin/Bass Productions in conjunction with the Japanese Toho Studios. Conniving…