Made principally to cash in on the Richard Burton/Elizabeth Taylor romance – the movie raced Cleopatra into the cinemas – this is a glossy, but…
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Where The Godfather had a good script and excellent actors, The Valachi Papers offered less art but more facts in its dramatisation of the Cosa Nostra operation in New…
“Julie’s cool. Randy’s hot. She’s from the valley. He’s not!” A sweet-natured San Fernando Valley suburbanite (Deborah Foreman) falls for an adventurous Hollywood punk from…
Somewhere south of the Rio Grande at the turn of the 20th Century, the Breckenridge Wild West Show rolls into town. Hardly a roaring success,…
Three young women decide on a career in show business in this trashy film version of Jacqueline Susann’s pulp novel. They are lovely to behold, but…
Young Chayley Broadbent (John Gregson) from Barfield, Yorkshire, inherits a sizeable legacy from his notoriously miserly millionaire industrialist father, John Henry Broadbent, upon his death.…
The usually suave David Niven stars (in his 87th film) as the present-day Prince of Darkness in this spoof horror film-with-a-difference. Count Dracula opens his…
In one of the longest pre-credit sequences, we follow a bucolic family scene in 19th century Serbia dissolve to terror as the wife and child…
The Vampire Lovers was Hammer’s first and only co-production with Hollywood’s leading horror specialists – American International – who had been responsible for most of…
Peter Loew (Nicolas Cage) is an eccentric womanising literary agent in Manhattan. He is the epitome of ‘80s yuppie narcissism and greed, treating sexual partners…
Although shot in just three weeks on a shoestring budget, this Spanish/British production is an incredibly stylish and erotic horror film, set in the UK…
A young man named Bobby (Bill Adler) leaves his small town and drives his custom van to Van Nuys Boulevard – in the San Fernando…
Bobby (Stuart Getz) is a Los Angeles teenager who blows all his college savings on buying a custom Dodge van – complete with waterbed, TV,…
Kowalski (Barry Newman) has just driven 1,500 miles non-stop from Califonia to Denver, Colorado, to deliver a car. Pausing long enough to grab a supply…
This Amicus film begins with shots of the Houses Of Parliament and stirringly ominous music from Douglas Gamely. The camera pans across the Thames to…
Writer-director Todd Haynes created an original and visually stunning faux-documentary charting the rise and fall of a fictional glam-rock star – using David Bowie as a…
Former CIA man, Bill Fenner (Robert Vaughn), now a downbeat, alcoholic journalist, is sent to Venice to investigate the shock suicide bombing by an American…
Debonair private detective Edward Mercer (Richard Todd) goes to Venice at the request of a millionaire to locate Renzo Uccello (John Gregson) – a brave…
Fu Manchu (Christopher Lee) and his daughter Lin Tang (Tsai Chin) are alive and well and up to no good in China. Fu has abducted…
Czechoslovakian beauty Olinka Berova is taken for the reincarnation of novelist H Rider Haggard’s Ayesha (as immortalised by Ursula Andress) in this mediocre sequel to…