Director Norman J Warren was one of the stalwarts of the independent horror scene in Britain during the 1970s, and this science fiction/horror hybrid -…
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Wealthy Investment Counselor Jessica Warren (Merle Oberon) is involved in a hit-and-run car accident and eventually stops to call the police and turn herself in.…
Richard Fuller (Gordon Jackson) is an ex-convict who – after serving his sentence for embezzlement – has changed his name to Roger Fenton and made…
The life of doomed gay British playwright Joe Orton gets a no-holds-barred but sure-handed telling by director Stephen Frears in this funny and moving biopic,…
This starry, over-inflated and expensive ($5 million) movie, set in Spain, was adapted from C.S. Forester’s The Gun, about a guerrilla band dragging a massive cannon…
After five years of movies featuring surrogate Bill Clintons ranging from benevolent (Dave, The American President) to vengeful (Air Force One) to malignant (Absolute Power,…
In this sleazy and irreverent crime thriller from Downhill Racer (1969) director Michael Ritchie, Lee Marvin plays Nick Devlin, a Chicago Mob enforcer sent to Kansas…
In the 1300s, as the Black Death ravages Europe, Lucifer makes a deal with the sinister Father Thomas Seaton (William Beckwith, offering eternal life to…
This period drama stars Maggie Smith in her Oscar-winning role as the eccentric Scottish teacher whose unorthodox views and teaching methods captivate pupils at the…
Engineers Aaron (Shane Carruth) and Abe (David Sullivan) accidentally discover a time-travel machine while experimenting in Aaron’s garage. At first, they use the technology for…
Opening with the birth of a baby, the exploitation ‘documentary’ film Primitive London attempts to cover just about every social group making News of the…
‘The Primitives’ are a group of night club musicians, featuring an exotic dancer, who commit jewel robberies wherever they perform, drawing upon their skill with…
Although he never enjoyed much commercial success during the 80s, many of John Carpenter’s films have garnered cult status over the years. Prince of Darkness…
Part swashbuckling adventure, part tongue-in-cheek parody, The Princess Bride is a fairy tale with a comic edge. The story begins when a gravel-voiced Grandpa (Columbo’s Peter Falk)…
More low budget sex-in-space nonsense from Fred Olen Ray, Prison Ship was filmed in 1984 (most of the film was shot in an empty grocery…
Based on a Neil Simon play of the same name, The Prisoner of Second Avenue is a bitterly satirical exploration of the myriad ways the…
“Try not to judge the Priesthood by the priest” Set during the Cold War in an unnamed totalitarian Communist state behind the Iron Curtain, a…
Widowed on her wedding night, sheltered and spoiled socialite Judy Benjamin (Goldie Hawn) is feeling forlorn and forsaken and so proves susceptible to a wily…
In post-war Yorkshire, with rationing still very much in force, mild-mannered chiropodist Gilbert Chilvers (Michael Palin) tries to prove his worth to the snobbish locals…
Middle-aged widow Charlotte Carson (Jill Esmond) lives in a council house on a new estate in Hammington with her son Hugh (Jack Watling) and daughter…