An elderly gay Austrian, traumatised by wartime experiences, befriends a troubled youth who is involved with neo-Nazis. This is a potentially promising idea, that a man tries to reach out across the g...

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A pair of conmen rob a wealthy and crazed Mexican general. This is one of dozens of cheap My Name Is Trinity rip-offs produced in Italy in the early 1970s, and no doubt one of the weaker ones. It is n...

Ed Sheeran can’t win. After stadium owners refused to host Macklemore, a succession of support acts quit in solidarity, including Sheeran’s own backing group. None of this mess was Sheeran’s doing…

A notorious pirate escapes from prison and goes in search of his buried treasure, accompanied or chased by an assortment of odd characters. Given the amount of talent involved in writing and performin...

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An American Army Major investigates the great German conductor Wilhelm Furtwängler during denazification. Based on a play by Ronald Harwood, this is slightly schematic for European arthouse cinema. Ha...

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For many conservatives, a return to meritocracy is axiomatic. Such a restoration would begin with the re-establishment of selection to universities on the basis of IQ. School testing has been shown to...

On a train from Bavaria in 1939, a much-married heiress encounters an English nanny who disappears; everybody denies they ever saw her. This film was the final nail in the coffin of Hammer Film Produc...

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A disparate group of characters get mixed up in the chaos of a rumoured attack on California by Japanese forces in the wake of Pearl Harbor. This followed two of Spielberg's biggest early hits - Jaws ...

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A man comes to England to kill his errant wife and has to prove his innocence when someone else offs her. This dull, minor Hammer B-movie has a big central problem - the protagonist is deeply unsympat...

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A gothic-style painter, descended from a mysterious fifteenth-century artist, turns out to be a vampiric murderer. This is a film stitched together from footage made originally for the unrealised thri...

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Director who led the Croydon Warehouse and co-founded the International Playwriting Festival

A criminal gang led by a bungling idiot kidnap the wife of a tax evader, but he's none too keen to have her back. This is a decent dark comedy of the period, elevated by the cast. Terry-Thomas is top-...

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A museum curator's only living relative is murdered - and the old man may have owned a lost Titian. The Dubrovnik locations are eye-catching and atmospheric, and from the visual interest they raise, y...

A detective is hired by a Swiss bank to investigate a blackmail attempt against the bank and a handful of its clients. This is one of those 1970s films that often ended up on the wrong end of a double...

Private detective Philip Marlowe is hired by a newly freed con to find his girlfriend, Velma. The case soon becomes littered with mystery and corpses. This is the only theatrical Chandler/Marlowe adap...

The Social Mobility Commission is a quango whose job it is to monitor “the progress made towards improving social mobility in the United Kingdom.” It has recently published a new report and set of…

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A man is paroled with the proviso that he work for a boxing promoter. The promoter expects a fighter but the man initially refuses - after his girlfriend is murdered by an ex-cellmate, however, he dec...

What If Reform Wins: A Scenario is a pathetically bad book. Badly written in bad faith. Chappell simply cannot write, so he doesn't dare write either a serious non-fiction exploration of Reform's pol...

A drifter ends up in prison for murder after a fight in a diner. He becomes a champion boxer inside. Despite its plotline, this is no inspirational film like Rocky, but a descent into the depths. The ...

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The conflict between and within German and British air squadrons during WW1. This follows the rise of the famous Red Baron, Manfred von Richthofen, from pilot to commander in his German squadron, incl...

The story of four generations of a wealthy bourgeois family of grain merchants in Lübeck, Germany, across the nineteenth century. It's been a few days since I finished this novel, and it has grown con...

A scandal sheet editor blackmails a quartet of wealthy malefactors, who plot how to get rid of him individually and as a group. This is a remarkably mordant 1950s British social comedy. Dennis Price's...

Various killings happen to the friends and family of a mute woman. This is a giallo by the great Italian exploitation director Umberto Lenzi, somewhat derived from The Spiral Staircase. It isn't a par...

Rein Me In has now spent 19 non-consecutive weeks at number one in the Official Charts, breaking a record set by Frankie Laine's I Believe in 1953.

In what style might a script based on the Cambridge plagiarism scandal surrounding Jason Arday, Cambridge’s youngest ever black professor, best be written? The story certainly has a packed plot: an…

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A recently released forger gets involved with a criminal gang who wish to utilise his talents. This relatively obscure British crime film certainly has ambitions - it features international criminals,...