Wayne’s World meets Dog Day Afternoon when Los Angeles rock band The Lone Rangers hold the employees of a radio station hostage. The Lone Rangers…
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This is the second sequel to Airport (1970) and stars Jack Lemmon as the ageing but very heroic pilot Don Gallagher. This time, the co-pilot, Chambers…
The fourth helping of Airport adventure was subtitled The Concorde, and this time the plot dealt with international arms dealer Dr Kevin Harrison (Robert Wagner) – one of…
For a generation that grew up on Airplane! (1980), the definitive disaster spoof, it may be impossible to take the overblown melodramatics of this adaptation of…
An all-star cast highlighted this mind-boggling 1970’s disaster film – The first of three sequels to Airport (1970). A 747 bound for Salt Lake City is hit…
The events presented in Albert R.N. are based on fact and took place in the prison camp, Marlag O for Naval Officers in North-West Germany…
This low budget comedy (it was made in less than two-and-a-half weeks for £70,000) stars Albert Toddey (David Jason), a bumbling civil servant who dreams he…
Recently retired Rhodesian police officer Terrick Handel (James Faulkner) turns vigilante to hunt down an albino terrorist called Whispering Death (Horst Frank) who rapes, scalps…
Jack Lemmon looks tired and unappealing in this cynical and grubby film about the torturous relationship between low-rent bail bondsman Alex Main and Maritza (Geneviève…
Alex (Donald Sutherland), a young long-haired Hollywood director, wrestles with success while his wife, Beth (Ellen Burstyn) copes with their domestic fallouts. Alex is a…
The soldier’s masculine brotherhood and its closed world of secret fears and private affections have long been a favourite theme for Oliver Stone. This chest-beating…
This second spin-off feature film from the popular sixties comedy series Till Death Us Do Part picks up where the 1968 film ends. Alf (Warren…
This lighthearted romance was produced as a “second feature” (B-movie) by ACT Films, with a script written by A.P. Dearsley, who adapted it directly from…
“I think if you were to spend all your time with birds, you’d begin to feel you’re going a bit doolally. It’s my opinion there…
This misjudged sequel to the Oscar-nominated Alfie (1966) finds pop singer Alan Price replacing Michael Caine as the cockney casanova, Alfie Elkins, with director Ken…
Ellen Burstyn won the Best Actress Oscar for her performance as strong-willed 35-year-old widow Alice Hyatt, trying to forge a new life for herself and…
Despising the Disney take, Jonathan Miller set out to de-anthropomorphise the story of Alice In Wonderland by returning to Dodgson’s mathematical logic and Victorian values for…
This star-studded made-for-television Channel 4 adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s classic tale starred 24-year-old Kate Beckinsale (the daughter of Rising Damp and Porridge star Richard Beckinsale) as tired modern…
Religious overtones run through this offbeat, multilayered whodunnit horror movie, telling the tale of a devout New Jersey family’s struggle to reveal the killer in…
Musical version of Alice in Wonderland – the story of a girl who tumbles down a rabbit hole, finds herself in a magical world with…