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.…
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What was intended to be a gritty insight into the brutality of the underworld, ends up being a tatty melodrama in this mid-budget misfire from…
“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…
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…
A group of new police recruits takes to patrolling the streets of Los Angeles. Rookie Roy Fehler (Stacy Keach) is a law student with a…
Mario Van Peebles made his directorial debut with this hard-hitting mix of crime thriller and social drama, which is as indebted to the urban realism…
They say there are a million stories in the naked city. This triple header only tries to tell three – a trio of short movies…
Egotistical saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) and spirited USO singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) meet in Times Square on V-J Day and decide they’re…
Set in Australia in the late 1940s, before the coming of television, Newsfront opens with a spectacular montage of newsreel footage which establishes a rivalry between two…
In the mould of American Graffiti, Next Stop, Greenwich Village is a nostalgia flashback to one of those special times and places – in this case,…
Shy and unassuming planning engineer David Webb (Kenneth More) must negotiate an important loan for his company with wealthy industrialist Sir Godfrey Cowan (Roland Culver)…
Stoner comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong own and operate an ice cream truck which they use as a cover to sell marijuana. An…
April (Michelle Meyrink) is a girl who can make things explode, usually whenever she gets amorous – a curse she’s inherited from her mother (Barbara…
A slam-bang action film with 6′ 4″ martial arts hero Steven Seagal (in his film debut) as Nico Toscani – a karate-chopping cop out to…
This 90-minute sleazefest has a crazed moral crusader – dressed in black leather and a Beatles wig – killing prostitutes, au pairs and assorted young…
This classic example of film noir revolves around Harry Fabian (Richard Widmark), a sneering, sulking, small-time American grifter with delusions of grandeur who decides to…
Roger Vadim is back, pushing yet another protege, but neither the movie nor his latest “discovery” measures up to those of the past (including Brigitte…
