James Goldstone’s unconventional disaster movie casts George Segal as Harry Calder, a ride inspector on the tail of a serial bomber (Timothy Bottoms), who’s rigging…
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Easily the greatest lost rock film of the 60s, Rock & Roll Circus is a freewheeling, psychedelic carnival of acrobats, clowns, fire-breathers, dwarves and pure rock…
More than a little reactionary, this Paul Schrader-penned revenge tale is all the more brutal and viciously cathartic for its trappings as a sensitive exploration…
William Wyler’s Roman Holiday is a romantic, bittersweet account of 24 hours in the life of a young European princess (Audrey Hepburn). On a state visit to…
This dumb comic-book adventure has no comedy and is actually a less harrowing adventure than a peak hour trip on the subway. In short, it…
This version of William Shakespeare’s classic play features Mercurio as an African-American drag queen, a CNN-style TV news anchor filling the role of the Shakespearean…
Corrupt New York cop Jack Grimaldi (Gary Oldman) is hungry for money and sex and plays both sides down the middle. He feeds mob boss…
Film critics hailed Romper Stomper as one of the most brilliant, provocative and truly exciting Australian motion pictures to appear on the screen – violent but never…
Likeable vacuous characters triumph over unlikable vacuous characters in Romy And Michele’s High School Reunion, a just-plain-vacuous comedy starring Friends’ Lisa Kudrow and a woefully miscast…
A freelance former CIA agent who uses the codename Sam (Robert De Niro) is recruited alongside a team of fellow mercenaries to take part in…
Room at the Top was adapted from John Braine’s first novel, about an ambitious young man in a local government office in a large and bleak…
A Room With a View, based on E.M. Forster’s third book (by his own admission one of his least successful works), dates back to 1908…
James Ignatius Rooney (John Gregson) is a dustman for the Dublin City Corporation. The pride of the Dublin dustcarts is an amiable bachelor and also…
The story of a rock star’s rise to fame and eventual self-destruction through whiskey and dirty hypodermic needles is nothing new, but Bette Midler (in…
An excellent cast combined with the provocative idea of witchcraft yields a top-notch thriller under Polish director Roman Polanski’s deft handling in this, his US…
Every opportunity for smutty innuendo is seized in this hospital comedy as Debbie Ash suffers countless indignities in the title role. When production of Confessions of…
This bright, breezy British crime comedy from the Boulting brothers begins with incompetent villains Jelly (Dudley Sutton), Scapa Flood (James Beckett) and Lenny the Dip…
French director Bernard Tavernier’s jazz odyssey set in the 1950s finds living legend Dexter Gordon portraying American expat saxophonist Dale Turner and collaborating with the…
Charlie Rogers (Presley) is a leather-clad carnival singer, general handyman, embittered orphan and karate expert (with a very large motorcycle) who leaves during a lull…
A sensitive fireman believes he has no chance of ever winning the heart of a lovely astronomer owing to his large nose and instead agrees…