Black comedian Godfrey Cambridge stars as Jeff Gerber, who we initially meet as an obnoxious, bigoted, loud-mouthed, racist white insurance man (the whiteface makeup is…
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This animated version of Richard Adams’s bestselling novel about a group of rabbits searching for a new home was a box-office success, despite the difficulty…
This lavish Mad Max on jet skis from director Kevin Reynolds was declared dead in the water owing to escalating costs, nightmarish production problems and…
Wattstax was a benefit concert put together by Stax Records to commemorate the community of Watts, Los Angeles after its 1965 Riots. The concert took…
What do you do when you shoot too much footage for one movie? The answer that MGM came up with was to make up a…
This classy soap opera set in the McCarthy era was fortunate to have inspired casting with Robert Redford and Barbra Streisand – both at the peak…
“Did you ever find Bugs Bunny attractive when he put on a dress and played girl bunny?” Bill and Ted introduced the concept of dudes…
Kenneth More plays Royal Navy officer Lieutenant Commander ‘Bodger’ Badger – a likeable officer who is just too honest with his opinions. When his latest…
With a title drawn from the tagline to Zombie Flesh Eaters (1979), a plot inspired by The Texas Chain Saw Massacre (1974) and a soundtrack…
Adam Sandler is pitch-perfect in his role here as hopelessly romantic cabaret wedding singer Robbie Hart, who falls in love with waitress Julia (Drew Barrymore)…
Weeds is the story of an armed robber, Lee Umstetter (Nick Nolte), sentenced to life without the possibility of parole in San Quentin. After two suicide…
This scathing late-sixties satire from Jean-Luc Godard is one of cinema’s great anarchic works. Determined to collect an inheritance from a dying relative, a bourgeois…
When jerky insurance company trainees Dick (Jonathan Silverman) and Larry (Andrew McCarthy) uncover a major fraud that’s costing their company S2M dollars, their high-flying boss…
Cheeky ice cream man Fred Scrutton (Bob Monkhouse) chauffeurs his friend Tim (Leslie Phillips) and Tim’s sexy fiancée Deirdre (Shirley Eaton) on a caravan holiday…
Triumphant geeks have always been a common theme of writer/director John Hughes, but that triumph was never achieved as raucously as it was in 1985’s Weird…
A motorcycle gang, The Devils Advocates, led by Adam (Stephen Oliver) visits a monastery and are turned on to Satanism by creepy monk Severn Darden,…
Set in the “bed sitter belt” of London (the titular West 11), Joe Beckett (Alfred Lynch) – a renegade son of middle-class parents – feels…
Natalie Wood and charisma-free Richard Beymer seem slightly miscast at times in this story about two rival gangs on New York’s West Side – the…
It is 1850. 140 women are bound from Independence, Missouri, for a West Coast valley ranch where 100 bachelor cowboys await them. Rancher Roy Whitman…
Bored Chicago businessmen John Blane (James Brolin) and Peter Martin (Richard Benjamin) shell out $1000 a day for a holiday at Delos – a super-expensive…