The Comic (1969)
It’s a Hollywood trope that successful screen comedians invariably want to test their mettle...
The Battle of the Villa Florita (1965)
One of the few romantic comedies of the 1960s to resonate today...
The Road to Corinth (1967)
Top-class cast and occasional stylish direction get in the way of a thriller that can’t make up its mind...
Topkapi (1964)
The mother of all heists directed by the father of all heist pictures...
Piccadilly Third Stop (1960)
Well-worked full length British thriller that goes against the grain of presenting sympathetic...
The Slender Thread (1965)
Hollywood paranoia in the 1970s ensured that any type of electronic surveillance was...
The Biggest Bundle of ‘Em All (1968)
Bunch of incompetent crooks kidnap an impoverished Mafia boss who pays his ransom...
Five Branded Women (1960)
Should have qualified as that rare thing – an all-star female cast...
Staircase (1969)
A huge flop at the time given both Richard Burton and Rex Harrison...
On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
Holds a special place in my movie heart because it was the first...
Death Curse of Tartu (1966)
Absolute hoot. I often think it’s a shame we can’t admit to enjoying...
Come September (1961)
The quite superb concept that underpins the traditional unsettling of Rock Hudson is...
The Moon-Spinners (1964)
Every new Hayley Mills film was an exercise in transition. Would audiences allow...
The Waltz King (1963)
The Twist, the Macarena, Twerking, none of these routines can hold a candle...
Enter Inspector Duval (1961)
The first piece of sleight-of-hand is the title, setting audiences up for the...
A History of Frasier on Cheers
A retrospective discussing the history of Dr Frasier Crane on Cheers...
A Touch of Class: A Frasier Retrospective
Unlike Cheers, Frasier was a show I actually watched when I was younger...
The Frasier Story
Documentary about ‘Frasier’ broadcast by C4 in the UK as part of ‘Frasier Night’ on 01/01/1999...
Hot Spur (1968)
Blame the algorithm. Once I had to my great surprise found The Hunting Party (1971)...
Entertainment First: Why Storytelling Matters More Than Identity
In both real life and in the realm of entertainment, I’ve always believed in one core principle...
The Girl Who Knew Too Much (1969)
Prophetic plot is the best reason to watch this more considered feature from...
The Valley of Gwangi
The special effects are in the five-star range while the movie into which...
The Hellbenders (1967)
An absolute hoot – and I suspect deliberately so. Forget the spaghetti western...
Sanctuary (1960)
This overheated melodrama stands as a classic example of Hollywood’s offensive attitudes to...
Impact (1963)
I enjoy a demanding supremely-acted fluently-directed movie with possibly a hint of Oscar...
The Swimming Pool (1969)
A drunk falls into a swimming pool in the middle of the night...
The Day the World Ended (1967)
Come the apocalypse, you’d want someone like Capt Ramsay (Neil Fletcher) in your...
Flight of the Lost Balloon (1961)
Fantasy enjoys considerable leeway if its fantastical elements make up for lack of...
The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
This has been lost for decades – and with good reason. Even Katharine...
The Glory Guys (1965)
The dismissive verdict of Sam Peckinpah (he wrote the script) is the main...