Having debuted with the low-budget, black-and-white comedy Clerks (1994), shot for $27,575 in a New Jersey convenience store, writer-director Kevin Smith returned in 1995 with Mallrats,…
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It is 1942 and Britain is clinging to the island of Malta, located south of Sicily and critical to keeping Allied supply lines open. Unsurprisingly,…
Hammer Films/EMI became experts at transplanting top TV comedies to the big screen in the 1970s. Their four previous efforts – On The Buses (1971);…
Bob Jenson (Ronald Howard) is in the middle of celebrating his engagement to wealthy young baronet Katherine Riddle (Carol Marsh in her final film) -…
It took a long time for the overtly ostentatious and aggressively aspirational working-class upstart Joe Lampton (Kenneth Haigh) – the protagonist of the Man at…
The second animated feature film from the Hanna-Barbera studio (the first was 1964’s Hey There, It’s Yogi Bear) created an alter-ego for Fred Flintstone in the…
English Lord John Morgan (Richard Harris) is hunting in the Dakotas in 1825 when he is captured by a group of Sioux warriors. Morgan’s guides…
King Henry VIII was used to getting his own way and, on those rare occasions that he didn’t, he merely used a little persuasive pressure…
When a movie rests as strongly on its two principals as this story does, you really need top-notch acting to carry it off. Man Friday…
Albanian agents are smuggling missile platforms into Mexico. An American agent is devoured by a shark in a phone booth. Superspy Bob St. Cloud is…
This joint Australian/Hong Kong production co-starred former one-time James Bond George Lazenby and top Hong Kong martial arts star Jimmy Wang Yu. Inspector Fang Sing…
The last of a run of outstanding Westerns made by Anthony Mann, shortly to graduate to bigger (albeit perhaps less interesting) projects like El Cid! (1961), and…
Elderly scientist Professor Elliot (Raymond Bond) has discovered that a new planet – “Planet X” – has changed its orbital path and will soon come…
Born and orphaned in the Australian “high country”, Jim Craig (Tom Burlinson) is sent to the Harrison lowland farm where – caught between an old…
William Blood (Kenneth More) is a carefree – and exceptionally healthy – playboy who earns his living as a human guinea pig at the Common…
The Man in the White Suit appeared in August 1951, two months after another famous Ealing comedy – The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) – had its premiere. It…
This $11 million musical version of Don Quixote starred Peter O’Toole as the mad, ageing nobleman who embarrasses his respectable family with his adventures. Backed by his…
Through a series of accidents, a Foreign Office filing clerk (Norman Wisdom) in Whitehall goes to Geneva with the British delegation. He becomes the most…
After making a series of exemplary Westerns starring James Stewart during the 1950s, Anthony Mann cast an aging Gary Cooper as a man forced to…
In a world of gangs, one man – private eye/gun for hire Moon (Michael Latimer) – will stop at nothing to take the spoils. Moon…