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…
This film from Christopher Guest about a small-town theatre troupe struggling to put on a musical is as touching as it is hilarious. Set in…
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…
During the latter days of World War II, bumbling US Army Air Force Lieutenant Roger Carrington (Ken Berry) is rescued from German hands by Baroness…
“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…
Italian director Antonio Margheriti was approached by MGM to make four science fiction films back-to-back in 1965 and 1966 using the same sets, costumes, props…
It is May 1953 on the battlefields of Korea – some three weeks before the truce will be signed between the Chinese Communists and the…
David Puttnam’s tale of an Irish childhood – adapted by Colin Welland from a Louis Pergaud novel filmed by Yves Robert in 1962 – is…
Following Assignment: Outer Space and Battle of the Worlds, Italian director Antonio Margheriti was approached by MGM to make four science fiction films back-to-back. Margheriti also…
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…
