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…
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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…
In the black ghetto of South-Side Chicago in the last years of the Depression, a 19-year-old black man named Bigger Thomas (Victor Love in his…
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…
This made-for-TV movie from the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) had four former university friends reuniting to exhume the body of their friend, Sonny, who they…
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…
Kathryn Bigelow’s directorial debut – a sometimes sexy, sometimes boring vampire film with plenty of gorgeous images – begins when farmboy Caleb Colton (Adrian Pasdar)…
Filmed at Pinewood Studios in the break between taping of the final episodes of the popular TV series at Granada in Manchester, this feature film…
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…
Neighbors was the John Belushi/Dan Aykroyd show, with the famous Saturday Night Live team swapping personas for this bizarre excursion into the outer reaches of manic comedy. In…
Sandra Bullock’s star charisma raises this mediocre computer-age paranoia fantasy to the level of watchable entertainment. The Speed (1994) heroine plays Angela Bennett, a lonely hacker…
Ex-television writer Paddy Chayefsky turned on his old medium with a vengeance in this ferocious satire about a raving mad anchorman who becomes enormously popular.…
John Cummings (Richard Todd), a colourless cosmetics salesman, buys a car to increase his business. But a gang controlled by vain, flashy and two-timing garage…
Shot at Pinewood Studios, this movie-length adaptation of the popular television series brought Irishman Patrick Brendan Kevin Aloysius Kelly (Joe Lynch) and Jewish Manny Cohen…
“Good to see you, Mr Bond. Things have been awfully dull around here. Now you’re on this, I hope we’re going to have some gratuitous…
Producer Edmund Grainger selected a fine cast consisting of Frank Sinatra in the male lead, with support from Peter Lawford, Steve McQueen, Richard Johnson, Paul…
Crooked trade union leader Jake MacIllaney (James Cagney) will do just about anything to win the presidential election of longshoreman union Local 26. When he encounters…
Mud, Slik, Hello, The Glitter Band, The Rubettes, Scott Fitzgerald, Bob Kerr’s Whoopee band and The Silver Band – The stars were out for Never…
Fantasy adventure from the director of The Perfect Storm and Troy (here in his first English-language movie), starring Noah Hathaway and Barret Oliver. Barret Oliver plays Bastian; a…
In one of the earliest “sexploitation” examples of combining classic fairy tales with soft porn, several tales by the Brother’s Grimm (featuring Sleeping Beauty, Snow…