Ten years ago, the great ape King Kong fell from the top of the World Trade Center in New York – but he did not…
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Of all Martin Scorsese’s outings with sparring partner Robert DeNiro, this is the strangest. He plays Rupert Pupkin, a desperate wannabe stand-up comic (and seedy…
One of the lesser luminaries of the French New Wave, Philippe de Broca scored a cult hit with this atmospheric black comedy set at the…
This multi-million dollar depiction of the life of Jesus Christ – filmed on location in Spain – attracted considerable controversy when it was released. While…
The introverted host of a late-night radio chat show becomes embroiled in his younger brother’s get-rich-quick schemes in Atlantic City in Jack Nicholson and director…
King of New York is a chronicle of the downfall of New York drug kingpin Frank White (Christopher Walken), who, after years of illegal activity…
The war in the East is nearing its conclusion but to the prisoners-of-war in Changi Gaol, Singapore, the end seems as far away as ever.…
Adventure based on the classic novel by H Rider Haggard, starring Deborah Kerr and Stewart Granger. It is 1897 and Elizabeth Curtis (Kerr) is on…
A small desert town in Arizona is overrun by tarantulas. First livestock and pets are attacked and killed before the spiders turn on the human…
‘You’re on a gravy train with biscuit wheels.’ Roy Munson (Woody Harrelson), the 1979 Odor Eaters Ten-Pin Bowling Champion, falls in with his arch-rival, fright-wigged…
Kings of the Sun was the first time Hollywood had dealt with the mysterious history of the Mayan civilisation on the Yucatan Peninsular. Without metals, horses,…
Kiss Me Deadly is the blackest of film noir movies – a masterpiece wrenched by director Robert Aldrich and screenwriter A I Bezzerides from Mickey Spillane’s trash…
Fred (Howard Keel) and Lilli (Kathryn Grayson) are a divorced pair of actors who are brought together by Cole Porter (Ron Randell) who has written…
Dean Martin, portraying himself, is stranded in the small town of Climax, Nevada, and becomes the subject of a plot to have him buy the…
The opening credits show Kiss performing their mega-hit Rock and Roll All Nite at Southern California’s Magic Mountain amusement park. The park employs a brilliant inventor, Abner Devereaux…
Kiss of the Spider Woman is a Brazilian film with American actors, directed by Hector Babenco, the gifted South American whose film Pixote was a controversial sensation. Based…
Released as a double bill with Paranoiac, The Kiss of the Vampire finds Gerald Harcourt (Edward de Souza) and his new wife, Marianne (Jennifer Daniel),…
US Air Force Lieutenant Josh Morgan (Elvis Presley) tries to convince his hillbilly cousin Jodie Tatum – who is his spitting image (yep, Elvis again)…
In the same year that she made Viva Las Vegas, Ann-Margret starred here as Jody Dvorak, a wild, sexy, anything-goes, jive-talking juvenile delinquent who escapes…
This notorious Australian flop is set in Sydney during the Roaring 20s. Beautiful Kitty O’Rourke (Liddy Clark, pictured above), a young war bride fresh off…