“God made him simple. Science made him a God”. Government scientist Lawrence Angelo (Pierce Brosnan) discovers that he can enhance the intelligence of chimpanzees using…
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Of all the cinematic epics, few come as grand and successfully realised as Lawrence of Arabia. Ambitious in every sense of the word, David Lean’s…
After 25 years of unblemished service in the British Army, ex-Lieutenant Colonel John George Norman Hyde (Jack Hawkins) is forced to retire. Resenting his country’s…
“There’s no crying in baseball!” With all the men away fighting in World War II, most of the jobs in America are filled by women.…
Cosseted 16-year-old Dot (Rita Tushingham, who rocketed to stardom with the 1961 film A Taste of Honey) and inarticulate ton-up biker Reggie (screen newcomer Colin…
Ben Sanderson, an alcoholic, drives to Las Vegas after being fired from his film production job with the intention of drinking himself to death within…
Years before he played Butch Cassidy, Paul Newman was Billy the Kid in this 1958 film. When Billy is an 11-year-old kid, his mother is…
Three years after delivering audiences a glimpse of Los Angeles AD2019 (in Blade Runner), director Ridley Scott turned his hand to complete fairy tale indulgence. Visually…
The silly saga of an unjustly accused Texas teenager who becomes a pop hero by getting a punk haircut and some New Wave fashions and…
This influential low-budget docudrama horror film told about the Bigfoot-style ‘Fouke Monster’, which reputedly terrorised the farming community of Fouke, Arkansas (population 350) since the…
A French Western comedy originally released as Les Pétroleuses. Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop…
Dying millionaire Rudolph Deutsch (Roland Culver) offers £100,000 to hard-headed physicist and para-psychology expert Dr Lionel Barrett (Clive Revill) if he can discover the secret…
The Legend of Lylah Clare exposes all the fictional characters that any film about Hollywood thinks it must have – the vulgar, despotic and shrewd…
Directed by Roy Ward Baker, this 1974 film is a fusion of vampire horror and kung fu capers designed to take advantage of (then) current…
Dick Turpin – the most daring highwayman of them all – rides again in this story from Walt Disney of the man who terrorised the…
Anthony Hopkins plays stern patriarch and ex-cavalryman William Ludlow, whose disgust at the actions of his own government during the Indian Wars leads him to…
Bob Hope stars as Sidney Milburn, the titular con artist in this (extremely loose) adaptation of Damon Runyon’s short story. His main gig is as…
The tale of three 17-year-old boys – Benji (Yiftach Katzur), Bobby (Jonathan Segal) and Hughie (Zacki Noy) – desperately trying to reach manhood in the…
Filthy-mouthed, heroin-addicted sociopath Lenny Bruce is not the kind of heroic biographical subject that draws crowds, but Bob Fosse’s tight direction and Dustin Hoffman’s mesmerising…
Marcello Mastroianni starred in his first film role in English (he couldn’t speak any English and learned his lines phonetically) as Leo, an exiled European…