Director James F Collier’s 1967 crusading drama Two a Penny is a well-meaning but simple-minded religious fable that arose through pop star Cliff Richard’s meeting with Billy Graham through Christian evangelism. Making an improbable job […]
‘The beat is the wildest! The blast is the craziest!… and the fun is where you find it!’ Director Sidney Hayers’s 1966 Finders Keepers stars Cliff Richard, who is helped out by experienced Morley (who […]
Director Edouard Molinaro’s 1980 comedy sequel La Cage aux Folles II finds that part two unexpectedly answers the awkward questions arising from the 1978 part one, La Cage aux Folles, as Michel Serrault and Ugo […]
Director Georges Lautner’s 1985 comedy second sequel La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding [La cage aux folles III: ‘Elles’ se marient] is third time unlucky for the gay duo, in which drag queen Albin […]
The 1982 crime comedy Partners is a disappointing, wrong-headed comedy-drama from American TV’s sitcomic mastermind James Burrows in his bewildering film début. John Hurt and Ryan O’Neal play an odd couple as LA cops probing […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1979 The Passage is a poor, nasty and depressingly violent World War Two action adventure film, wasting the impressive talents of Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lee, Patricia Neal, […]
Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]