A happy-go-lucky bunch of British prisoners in a German POW camp during World War II discover that their new acerbic fellow prisoner is high-ranking British…
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Nick Deezy (Jeff Goldblum) is a ‘psychometrist’ capable of touching an item and being able to psychically tell things about the person who handled it.…
A group of cadets train at a police academy to join the Hollywood vice squad in this low budget b-movie Police Academy knock-off. The feisty…
This thought-provoking classic stars Dirk Bogarde as Melville Farr, a homosexual (but married) barrister who risks his career to hunt down a blackmailer who has…
Based on a 1933 German film by Rheinhold Schuenzel called Viktor und Viktoria, this bloated farce cashes in on the transvestite popularity of La Cage aux Folies by…
A groundbreaking film, David Cronenberg’s story about the horrible transformations wrought by exposure to televised violence wittily thematises the very problems that the director’s exploration…
In the frozen wastes of Siberia, hundreds of Russian machine guns fire away at a familiar figure on skis. Yes, it’s 007 again, leaping across a…
Einar (Kirk Douglas) and Erik (Tony Curtis) are Viking half-brothers. Einar is a great warrior, Erik an ex-slave who makes a bitter enemy of Einar,…
This low-budget, well-made and chilling film – based on John Wyndham’s novel The Midwich Cuckoos – proves beyond a doubt that good movies need not be…
Instinctively, you know there’s something special happening when a film opens with a half-dozen teens engaging in a muddy, rain-soaked frottage to a throbbing sensual…
A bloated Richard Burton is in rare high spirits as vicious homosexual mob boss and protection racketeer Vic Dakin, whose sadism is offset by outpourings…
Featuring one of several police characters Stanley Baker played in the late 50s/early 60s, Violent Playground fuses a crime story with a social-realist tale of…
One Friday in summer, three gunmen – Chapman (J. Carrol Naish), Dill (Lee Marvin) and Harper (Stephen McNally) – arrive in the small copper mining…
Leslie Thomas’s first novel went straight to the top of the bestseller charts in 1966 and this movie version quickly tried to capitalise on its…
Pretty young Christine (Ann Michelle) and her younger sister Betty (future ‘Allo ‘Allo star Vicki Michelle in her acting debut) are hitchhiking to London when…
Kreton (Jerry Lewis) is an innocent and childlike alien from the planet X-47 who has always been fascinated by Earth. Eventually getting the opportunity to…
Bernard Wicki’s film of Friedrich Dürrenmatt’s play (also known as Time and Again) is a fascinating work. The tragi-comedy (as Dürrenmatt describes it) is related to…
Investigative television journalist Deborah Balin (Lee Grant) falls foul of a mentally deranged viewer and is brutally attacked in her home. She is taken into…
Real-life human crash test dummy Evel Knievel plays himself in a ridiculous PG-rated fictional adventure movie. Some drug dealers in Mexico try to kill Knievel…
The annual Grand Prix brings racing driver Lucky Jackson (Elvis Presley) to Las Vegas. To meet expenses and buy an engine he has raised some…
