Lt. Rip Crandall (Jack Lemmon) is a naval officer during WWII who is given command of the USS Echo (an old sailing scow) to undertake…
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Just before an election, the US President is accused of molesting a teenage girl in the Oval Office. Keen to divert interest away from the…
A child’s doll is filled with heroin packets in Montreal to be sent to New York on an Air Canada flight with the carrier Lisa…
John Grant (Gary Bond) is the bored teacher at a one-room school in Tiboonda, a tiny railway junction on the far western plains of New…
“In Australia when an Aborigine man-child reaches sixteen, he is sent out into the land. For months he must live from it. Sleep on it.…
Deborah Dainton (Samantha Eggar) is an insecure and uptight young professional woman who works as an assistant at a London auction house. Deborah uses a…
Oliver Stone’s souped-up, morality melodrama hammers away with ferocity at corporate raiders, insider trading, stock manipulation and other questionable practices involving big business in the…
Directed by Alan Parker and starring Bob Geldof from The Boomtown Rats, this movie version of the 1979 Pink Floyd album was described by one critic as “the…
An English general finds himself with a hypochondriac for a wife, a French mistress and a penchant for buxom chambermaids. In one of his most…
Barbara Loden wrote, directed and played the lead in this simply plotted, contemporary-American slice of low life. Wanda, living on sufferance in her coalminer brother’s…
Following a car crash, the semi-conscious Sylvester (Richard Compton) is kidnapped by Wanda (Katharine Shubeck) – a tall woman with a fashion-model body, heavy eye…
In a newly integrated Bronx neighbourhood in 1960s New York, Ritchie (Ken Wahl) leads the Italian American gang ‘The Wanderers’. He’s a stud and has…
Produced by Dino De Laurentiis and shot on location in Italy at a cost of $6 million, War and Peace weighs in at 208 minutes. The money…
It is May 1953 on the battlefields of Korea – some three weeks before the truce will be signed between the Chinese Communists and the…
An informal prequel to The Wild, Wild Planet, and shot back-to-back with it using virtually the same cast, director Antonio Margheriti’s alien invasion saga isn’t…
The War of the Roses is a ferocious black comedy about divorce, both funny and cynical. Barbara (Kathleen Turner) and Oliver (Michael Douglas) Rose are the…
Loosely adapted from H.G. Wells’ classic novel of the same name, this 1953 doomsday sci-fi was billed as a “mighty panorama of Earth-shaking fury as…
“Shall we play a game?” With the advent of computing systems like Apple and Commodore, home computers became a major fad in the early 1980s…
It may be small change compared with today’s CGI monster movies, but this is still a decent romp from director Kevin Connor, and it’s far…
“Let’s get down to it Boppers . . .” Hundreds of gangs from all of New York’s five boroughs show up for a summit at…
