Unemployed Johnny (David Thewlis) has to flee Manchester and heads to London where he calls at the home of his ex-girlfriend Louise (Lesley Sharp). After…
Browsing: Movies N
Please note: The majority of movie posts contain spoilers.
After being severely beaten and put in the hospital for two months by a rival biker gang, Mother (Michael Greene) returns to his motorcycle gang…
Graeme Blundell plays a not quite with-it researcher in this two-and-a-half-hour colour documentary on Australian attitudes to sex and censorship. His rather erratic approach to…
Billed on release as the latest film from the brother of the man who directed Ghost (1990) – and complete with a wonderful send-up of…
This second chip off the Naked Gun block follows the hallowed tradition of wallowing in stupidity. Still, it’s hard to hate a sequel whose ad copy contains…
Based on short-lived TV comedy Police Squad, and pulling on a tradition stemming from the success of films like Airplane! (aka Flying High) (1980) and Top Secret (1984), The Naked Gun: From…
The year is 1953. New York exterminator Bill Lee (Peter Weller) discovers that his wife Joan (Judy Davis) has been swiping his yellow bug powder to…
Young New York model Gay Andrews (Jeanne Rainer) and sleazy married advertising executive Bob Walker (Paul Judson) are arrested in New Jersey for speeding. Taken…
Frank Sinatra’s only British film is an espionage thriller with a fistful of twists. Sam Laker (Sinatra) is a widower and American industrialist working in…
Suave Nigel Dennis (Dennis Price) is an ambitious publisher who decides to get rich quickly by producing a scandal magazine called The Naked Truth and…
Sean Connery is William of Baskerville, a 14th-century Franciscan Sherlock Holmes – with Christian Slater as his young apprentice, Adso of Melk – who is trying…
With songs galore throughout the whole film, we are thrown headfirst into America’s country music capital whilst witnessing the machinations of the presidential candidate elections.…
The nuns of a convent show a penchant for dirty tricks and thoroughly bad behaviour when a contest for the top job at their Philadelphia…
The National Health Service (the British public health system) is ferociously savaged in this black comedy set in a rundown, poorly-equipped, under-funded Victorian London hospital…
As in its funnier predecessors, National Lampoon’s Vacation (1983) and European Vacation (1985), the plot here revolves around the Griswold family, led by Chevy Chase and Beverly…
Co-scripted by teen-pic maestro John Hughes (The Breakfast Club et al), this politically incorrect sequel to 1983’s National Lampoon’s Vacation from director Amy Heckerling (Fast Times…
A Chicago family sets out for a two-week road trip to California and encounters every conceivable mishap along the way. Chevy Chase plays accident-prone (and…
Serial killers Mickey (Woody Harrelson) and Mallory (Juliette Lewis) Knox are turned into folk heroes by media excesses in this striking movie that was publicly…
An outstanding fable from New Zealand director Vincent Ward, which switches in time between monochrome Cumbria in 1348 and the colourful modern-day Antipodes. A medieval mining…
One of the unfortunate temptations of hiring a rock star to carry a film is for the director to rely rather lazily on that star’s…