Directed by Michael Wadleigh, Wolfen is a chilling journey through the cold, garbage-strewn streets of early-80s New York City. The film begins with disillusioned former New…
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After 20 years of marriage and running around after her husband Jim (Anthony Quayle) and son Brian (Andrew Ray), warm-hearted but feckless and domestically untidy…
First screened on ITV at 9.00 pm on Christmas Eve in 1989, Herbert Wise’s adaptation of Susan Hill’s 1983 novel, The Woman in Black, wowed…
This comedy remake of the 1977 French farce Pardon Mon Affaire stars Gene Wilder (who also wrote and directed), Kelly LeBrock, Gilda Radner and Charles Grodin. Middle-aged…
Based on the popular TV series, this charming family movie follows the Wombles as they face two struggles. While they wage their ongoing war against…
Two D.H. Lawrence creations bookended the 1960s: the obscenity trial of Lady Chatterley’s Lover in 1963 (the year in which Philip Larkin alleged that sexual…
Former CIA agent turned investigator Mike Harber (Ross Hagen, who also produced the film) is on the trail of a world-class athlete (one of many…
After losing their job as entertainers on a luxury cruise ship, Johnny (Cliff Richard) and his backing band (The Shadows) are cast away by the…
This romantic comedy-drama alternates between London and Malta where brothers Carmello Gomez (singing star Frankie Vaughan) and his younger brother, Mario (Jeremy Spenser) fish for…
In the ancient city of Baghdad, Aladdin (Donald O’Connor) is given the legendary lamp by his mother (Adriana Facchetti) without either being aware of its…
A gloriously meaningless head-trip about Oscar Collins (Jack MacGowran) – a doddering eccentric old scientist who discovers a secret window into the endless sex life…
The Wooden Horse tells the true story of the escape in Summer 1943 of three English prisoners from Stalag Luft III – a Luftwaffe-run prisoner…
The 1969 outdoor rock festival called Woodstock (although it was actually held on Max Yasgur’s 600-acre dairy farm near Bethel, New York) gave its name…
David Warner and scouse songbird Cilla Black star in this delightfully absurd film, set in a near-future dominated by automation, courtesy of the ubiquitous DICE…
Tess McGill (Melanie Griffith) is an ambitious executive assistant from the wrong side of town – she commutes from Staten Island daily – who has…
Splendid performances highlight this sharp, satirical adaptation of John Irving’s dark best-seller about the adventures of an illegitimate, eccentric young man hell-bent on being a…
It’s 2087, and Ethan (Bruce Dern) is the stoner hippie leader of the peaceful post-nuke desert community of Lost Wells. It hasn’t rained for 50…
The 19th Bond adventure opens with a high-octane jetboat chase along London’s River Thames leading to a fight on the Millennium Dome. From then on…
Henry Orient (Peter Sellers in his first Hollywood film) is a madly egocentric and overly amorous unexceptional avant-garde concert pianist – sometimes Latin and sometimes…
The hero, Robert Lomax (William Holden), is a poor, starving middle-aged artist who gave up his steady architect job in America to move to Hong…