Christine Painter (Julie Walters) is a working-class single mother struggling to make ends meet who opens her own brothel with the aid of an experienced…
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In this morbid but compulsive horror, adapted by Stephen King from his own novel, the Creed family – handsome young doctor Louis (Dale Midkiff), wife…
In New England in the early 20th century, Pete (Sean Marshall) is a freckle-faced nine-year-old orphan escaping from his brutal adoptive parents, the hillbilly Gogans…
“Second star to the right and straight on ’til morning.” Sir James M. Barrie’s book Peter Pan was a long-time favourite of Walt Disney’s, and the pioneering…
Tony ‘Jock’ Petersen (Jack Thompson), an electrician and ex-Australian Rules footballer, decides in his 30’s to go to university to study for an arts degree.…
TV comic Charlie Drake again finds himself up a well-known creek without a script in his third tilt at movie stardom. This time, however, he’s…
The slow-moving story of a divorced doctor’s relationship with a younger woman in San Francisco. Archie Bollen (George C. Scott) is a gifted and successful…
This low-budget independent horror-comedy, written and directed by Don Coscarelli, concerns shaggy-haired teenager Mike Pearson (Michael Baldwin) who lives with his older brother Jody (Bill…
This surreal Mexican-American Western spoof begins when the peaceful life of the town of Yucca Flats is disrupted by the arrival of an infamous gang…
Adam (Michael Tough) and Harmony (Jeremy Kaplan) are hired by President Lincoln to go undercover to bust a band of train robbers. Trailing the bandits,…
Paul Williams (who also wrote the score) plays Swan, the eccentric and ever-youthful head of Death Records, who has pledged to contract new souls for…
Chuck Jones’ adaptation of Norman Juster’s famed children’s book was his first feature film (and the first animated feature for MGM), but the animator had…
Before there was Batman or Superman, before Captain America or The Hulk, there was The Phantom – the purple-clad righter of wrongs who, along with…
Ants suddenly form a collective intelligence and begin to wage war on desert inhabitants. It is up to two scientists and a stray girl they…
If Inferno (1980) is Dario Argento’s most abstract assault, the underrated Phenomena (1985) is by far his weirdest. A maniac is decapitating the girls at the prestigious Richard…
A strange light in the sky gives small-town mechanic George Malley (John Travolta) paranormal powers in this feel-good sci-fi fable from director Jon Turteltaub. As…
Tom Hanks, in the most artistically challenging and physically and emotionally punishing role of his career, plays Andy Beckett, a whiz-kid lawyer who is rising…
In 1943, the United States tests an anti-radar system to make US Navy ships invisible to the enemy. Dr James Longstreet uses his experiment on…
A wonderfully bizarre cinematic nugget of the psychedelic era. The Phynx is the ultimate pre-fab pop group, created by a supercomputer called M.O.T.H.A. and catapulted…
Ada (Holly Hunter) is a wilful mail-order bride who has been mute since the age of six. She narrates the movie, explaining, “This is not…