James Bolam and Rodney Bewes star in director Michael Tuchner’s amiable 1976 comedy spin-off from their sequel British TV show Whatever Happened to the Likely Lads? (January 1973 to April 1974) – though it has the title of […]
John Schlesinger’s 1963 British New Wave film Billy Liar blends kitchen-sink drama, satirical humour and fantasy to brilliant effect. Tom Courtenay is superb as the undertaker’s clerk who lives in a world of dreams, while […]
The 1970 British kitchen sink drama film Spring and Port Wine is based on a hit stage play by Bill Naughton, and provides a grand role for James Mason as a North West England father who attempts to assert his […]
Director George Roy Hill bites off more than he can chew in this 1972 movie of another of Kurt Vonnegut Jr’s virtually unfilmable fantasy novels – Slaughterhouse-Five or the Children’s Crusade – adapted by screen-writer […]
‘What the Italians do with a bed… the Americans do with a beach!’ This 1967 beach farce Don’t Make Waves sure looks good on paper. The director (Alexander Mackendrick) and star (Tony Curtis) of the 1957 […]
‘Matt Helm’s final assignment is a blast!’ Don’t you just love taglines that review the film? Why have film critics when you can have ad men? Director Phil Karlson’s 1968 spy caper adventure movie The […]
‘You Never SAW A Student Body Like This!’ Ah hem, yes. Director Albert Zugsmith’s demented 1960 American exploitation sex comedy film Sex Kittens Go to College stars the memorable Mamie Van Doren as Doctor Mathilda […]
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