After the huge success of Easy Rider (1969), director Dennis Hopper could have made any movie he wanted. Sadly he did just that, and the…
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Last Night is perhaps the quietest of all films about the end of the world, offering a naturalistic study of behaviour and relationships in place…
There are raised voices at a Bel Air party. The front door bursts open, and gossip columnist Sheila Greene (Yvonne Romain), dressed in an evening…
The French and Indian War is raging in the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York in 1757 as British Army Major Duncan Heyward (Steven Waddington)…
Matt Helm, Derek Flint, Napoleon Solo – Hollywood tried but there was no one to touch 007 in the 1960s cloak-and-dagger stakes and this bumbling spy spoof…
Director Peter Bogdanovich and writer Larry McMurtry examine the passing of an American way of life in this artfully assured and elegiac film about the…
How one responded to The Last Remake of Beau Geste depended largely on how one responded to its star, pop-eyed comic Marty Feldman (who also directed the…
A wife takes off from her drug-dealing medical intern husband (Bill Pullman), leaves Manhattan, and finds refuge in the charming (fictitious) small town of Beston…
Alex Rogan (Lance Guest) is a bored teenager who lives with his mother and young brother in the remote Starlite Starbrite trailer park and yearns…
In the stretches of sand on Fire Island (a beautiful holiday resort frequented by wealthy New Yorkers), Peter (Richard Thomas) and Dan (Bruce Davison) meet…
If movie audiences weren’t plonking down money in 1973 to see Linda Blair vomit pea soup in William Friedkin’s The Exorcist, they were lining up to…
Wherever it was shown, Martin Scorsese’s The Last Temptation Of Christ caused controversy and sometimes violent demonstrations, whether in Protestant America and Great Britain or Catholic Italy.…
This unloved film from a late-career Elia Kazan is about a young movie producer making his way up the ladder in the foundational years of…
In his nomadic travels in 1641, former teacher and intellectual Vogel (Omar Sharif) encounters a breathtakingly beautiful Austrian valley housing a peaceful Tyrolean village untouched…
The agonising tensions that go with the death struggles of a sinking luxury liner are presented with stark realism in The Last Voyage. The crew of…
This record of The Band’s last concert – after sixteen years on the road – was shot on Thanksgiving Day 1976 at Bill Graham’s Winterland…
Behind the opening credits an Australian Aboriginal is painting on the roof of a cave which opens like a huge mouth: a black hand, protruding…
This provocative 1980 made-for-TV science fiction film is set in Century Portland, Oregon, at the end of the 20th-century in a world of unending rainfall…
Four relatives of a recently-deceased horrible old practical joker (Hugh Griffith) are each set to receive a substantial sum of money in his will, but…
One of the finest British comedies ever made, this delightful caper movie stars Alex Guinness as “Dutch” Holland – a mild-mannered and fastidious bank clerk…