Petty thief and wannabe antiques dealer Gerald Arthur Otley (Tom Courtenay) is evicted from his Portobello Road digs – despite “servicing” his landlady (Maureen Toal)…
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“He makes love in 47 languages.” The box-office success of Ian Fleming’s 007 led to a rash of “super-Bond” spoofs back in the 1960s, and…
Jim Wormold, a vacuum cleaner salesman in Havana, is approached by a spy (Noel Coward) and invited to supply him with information in exchange for…
This Anglo/American production stars Tony Randall as Andrew Jessel, an innocent American who becomes involved with spies and gangsters in Morocco when a dead body…
During World War II, actor Fred Wimbush (Danny La Rue in his first starring film role) receives his call-up papers ordering him to an Army post…
When their chronically ill, deeply religious mother (Annette Carell) dies, the seven Hook children bury her in the garden of their gloomy Victorian house and…
Nobody needed a remake of 1973’s American Graffiti – especially a bad one. Set in 1967, Scott Jacoby plays David Wakefield, a senior at Griffin…
This super-low-budget “experimental ” film – directed by Eli Hollander, a film instructor at the University of California at Santa Cruz – is confusing and…
Out of Africa is big, beautiful to look at, impressive, and the kind of sweeping, literary experience for which awards are given. This one picked…
A spy’s butler plans to follow in his employer’s footsteps by tackling the case of a mad scientist at the beach. Out Of Sight was one…
Alcoholic truck driver Don Barnes (Dennis Hopper) has a queasily libidinous interest in his adolescent daughter, Cindy – known as “CeBe” (Linda Manz) – who…
Directed by Basil Dearden, and taking place over the course of twenty-four hours, Out of the Clouds is an ensemble piece from Ealing Studios composed…
Jack Lemmon and Sandy Dennis are brilliant as the Kellermans, the “out of towners” of the title, who fly from Twin Oaks, Ohio, to New…
US Army research physician Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) has been dispatched by General Billy Ford (Morgan Freeman), his commanding officer at USAMRIID (US Army Medical…
When professional, no-nonsense small-time criminal Earl Macklin (Robert Duvall) is released from prison, he discovers his brother, Eddie (Edward Ness), has been killed by a…
In a titanium mining colony called Con-Amalgamate 27 on Jupiter’s volcanic moon, Io, workers have been taking an illegal super-amphetamine to increase their output so…
Clint Eastwood took over the direction of The Outlaw Josey Wales from its co-scenarist Philip Kaufman when the two men fell out over the character of Josey…
The film begins in post-Civil War Boston, where The Three Stooges – Larry, Moe, and Curly Joe – work as bumbling printers at the Society…
Director Francis Ford Coppola mishandles this film adaptation of S. E. Hinton’s novel about rival teenage gangs in Oklahoma during the 1960s (no actual time…
Dating from the post-Rambo period when Sylvester Stallone’s career was in the doldrums, this tacky drama has its roots in that old Wallace Beery classic…