Chromed, customised motorcycles are the raidon d’etre of biker Scorpio and his true-to-life technicolor gang of greaser dandies, whose posturing and partying are masterfully cut with images…
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“What’s your favourite scary movie?” Director Wes Craven’s intelligent reinvention of the slasher genre sees a sick maniac on the loose in a small suburban…
A jogger ambling through London as the titles roll has what appears to be a heart attack and wakes up in a private hospital room…
After a dying Voodoo queen chooses adopted apprentice Lisa (Pam Grier) as her successor, her son Willis (Richard Lawson) – who believes he is the…
This 1958 American International Pictures release has newlyweds Eric (John Hudson) and Jenni Whitlock (Peggy Webber) retire to his desolate old mansion, where Eric’s first…
Stubbornly refusing to believe in Christmas or to be separated from his inexhaustible wealth, money lender and parsimonious recluse Ebenezer Scrooge (Alastair Sim) can’t be…
This 1970 film was the first colour movie adaptation of A Christmas Carol and the first big-screen musical version of Dickens’ tale. Younger and more conventionally handsome…
Mean-spirited television network president Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a slick yuppie who cares only about money and ratings for his network, IBC – which,…
Inspired by the success of the 1979 film Scum, this British drama graphically depicts the ugliness of life within a woman’s borstal (youth detention centre).…
Billiard balls in a sock, gang rape in a greenhouse, teenage suicide . . . it’s all here in Alan Clarke’s brutal look at life…
From the makers of Don’t Look in the Basement (1973), Scum of the Earth introduces newlyweds Helen (Norma Moore) and Paul (Joel Colodner) who go to a…
Director David Fincher’s brilliant postmodern crime thriller is a grim and disturbing tale about a vicious serial killer on the loose in an unnamed city. Intelligently…
Al Pacino stars as Frank Keller, an alcoholic New York homicide cop in the depths of a midlife crisis. Frank begins investigating a serial killer…
Myra (Kim Stanley) and Bill (Richard Attenborough in a prosthetic nose) Savage are a married couple living in London. Myra is a medium who holds…
John Ford had been making westerns for almost four decades before he acknowledged the racism inherent in cowboys vs Indians and directed this exciting, breathtakingly…
Colourful, pungently witty tale of conservative Oxford professor Sebastian (Dirk Bogarde) enlisting hot-tempered, swinging interior decorator Becky Howard (Susannah York) into his all-female Secret Service…
Described by many, as one of the most underappreciated films of the sixties, John Frankenheimer’s 1966 mystery drama Seconds, is the third entry in the…
“Blood Island” is the grim nickname given to a compound in the Malayan jungle where British Prisoners-of-War are made to work in the sweltering steamy…
The elastic-faced James Booth plays Arthur Tate, a naive young policeman who becomes increasingly successful after beginning his career as a bobby in a quiet…
The Secret Policeman’s Ball was a 100-minute film featuring the highlights of the third Amnesty International charity concert staged over four consecutive nights (27 -…