This stunning but demanding Marxist epic ran to almost five and a half hours in director Bernardo Bertolucci’s original cut and spans 45 years of Italian…
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1941 is a stupid farce based on a stupid idea: What would have happened if, after bombing Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had gone on to attack…
Produced in England, Michael Anderson’s 1955 version of George Orwell’s dystopian novel is set in a futuristic 1984 and remains faithful to its source, concentrating…
Based on the dystopian novel by George Orwell and set in the totalitarian future state of Oceania, this is the story of citizen Winston Smith…
An American rocket returning from the first manned space flight to Venus crashes into the sea near Sicily. One of the crew members is killed,…
For its first big-budget live-action movie, Disney turned to a classic: Jules Verne’s 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. The studio also turned to a few major Hollywood…
It’s New Year’s Eve 1981 in New York’s new wavey Lower East Side, and Monica (Martha Plimpton) is having a party – although it’s already…
Taking a leaf out of the cute anarchy of A Hard Day’s Night (1964), directors Frank Zappa and Tony Palmer invest Zappa’s own music (performed by…
Young Melbourne journalist Will Gardiner (Scottish actor Mark McManus, later to find fame as DCI Jim Taggart) has interconnected crises on his hands: a clash…
Although collaborators like writer Arthur C Clarke and effects gurus Wally Veevers and Douglas Trumbull were important to the success of 2001, the film is basically…
Dazzling special effects and fancy space hardware dominate this follow-up to Stanley Kubrick’s 2001: A Space Odyssey. Yet, there’s no feeling of awe, mystery or imagination…
Made in Germany in 1974, this is the film Kubrick might have made had he been sex-obsessed and talentless. Disguised as the French Olympic ski…
Tarzan star Lex Barker and Hollywood legend Mickey Rooney head a glittering international cast in this crime thriller from British B-movie mogul Harry Alan Towers.…
The 25th Hour relates the misadventures of Johann Moritz (Anthony Quinn), a simple and innocent Romanian peasant, who is literally dragged out of his house…
This quite extraordinary anti-communist tract masquerades as naive science fiction. An alien (Arnold Moss) transports five people from five different countries on Earth to his…
Set in an evacuated London decimated by a virus, the film – shot with nerve-frying effectiveness on digital video – creeps you out big-time. Twenty-eight…
Beautiful blonde stripper Saxie Symbol (Mamie Van Doren) and her two neurotic male friends, used car salesman Joe (Paul Gilbert) and male fashion model Bruce…
Army buddies Jerry Hotchkiss (Jerry Lewis) and Pete Nelson (Dean Martin) join a circus after they are discharged from their military service. Jerry is so…
Pinky Rose (Sissy Spacek) is an awkward adolescent from Texas who starts work at the Desert Springs Rehabilitation and Geriatric Centre, a health spa for…
Lemuel Gulliver (Kerwin Matthews) is a hardworking but not very wealthy doctor who wants to make a success of himself in order to provide for…