Raising Arizona is a wacky, offbeat action comedy by producer Ethan and director Joel Coen, two brothers who popped out of nowhere with the low-budget murder…
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A line-up of stars from the Carry On fraternity get together for this laboured but likeable Gerald Thomas comedy about five poverty-stricken music students at…
Grace and Harry Bannerman (Joanne Woodward and Paul Newman) are very happy living in Putnam’s Landing, Connecticut – a typical New England hamlet an hour…
Vietnam veteran John Rambo (Sylvester Stallone) is tracked down to a Buddhist monastery by his friend Colonel Trautman (Richard Crenna), who wants help fighting Soviet…
Rambo extends the mindless slaughter and retching carnage of First Blood (1982) with equally unnerving results. It begins with an explosion so loud it shakes the floor and threatens…
A West German zoo commissions Harry Stanton (Robert Mitchum) and Otto Abbot (Jack Hawkins) to travel to Malaya to capture a rare animal – a…
This adults-only Western begins with a cowboy trail boss named Rick (Roger Gentry, billed here as Jim Gentry) visiting a tribe of Native Americans who…
Lancashire publican Bill Ramsbottom (Arthur Askey) inherits a saloon and some land with uranium deposits from his grandfather, Wild Bill Ramsbottom, who lived the cowboy…
Lord Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai) is an ageing Japanese warlord who intends to divide his kingdom among his three sons. The oldest son, Taro (Akira…
Shepherd (John Quentin), an anarchist, saboteur and murderer, and his three accomplices are besieged by police in the British embassy in a Scandinavian country where…
The Book of Revelation is rich fare for those with a taste for weird visions of catastrophe and many films have referenced it. But none…
Thrown out of his monastery for his licentious and drunken behaviour, Grigori Rasputin (Christopher Lee) travels to St Petersburg to chance his luck. Through a…
Cult filmmaker Ray Dennis Steckler holds a special place in the hearts of schlock cinema fans, best known for his bizarre, low-budget creations like Wild…
In Paris, a highly intelligent, idealistic young rat named Remy dreams of becoming a world-class chef like his late idol, the legendary French chef Auguste…
Sondra Locke directs and stars in yet another tale of an exploited misfit. This time it’s a half boy, half rat creature (SL Baird) and…
Harry H Corbett strays into Norman Wisdom territory in this disappointing comedy-drama from the husband-and-wife team of Sydney and Muriel Box. As innocent Percy Winthram – in…
This funny satire of horror stories (inspired by Poe’s poem) is set in 15th-century England – a time ruled by magic, fear, and superstition. Dr…
By the mid-80s, Arnold Schwarzenegger had arrived. John Milius’s Conan the Barbarian (1982) and notably James Cameron’s The Terminator (1984) established him as a physically…
A group of vacationing martial arts students on a cruise ship accidentally wind up on Warrior Island, where precious Jade is being mined by traders…
Larry Darrell (Bill Murray) returns home to Lake Forest, Illinois, from the battlefields of World War I, a changed man. Instead of settling into a…