The Man in the White Suit (1951)
Nov 1, 2002Imperishable Suit Invention Comedy
Classic Ealing comedy where Alex Guinness causes social disruption when he invents a suit that never wears out or gets dirty
Alec Guinness
Scrooge (1970)
Dec 16, 2000Miser's Redemption Musical
Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol starring Albert Finney as Scrooge, this is made on a big budget, leading to an extravagant and often over-produced film
Star Wars (1977)
Dec 16, 2000Space Opera
The single most influential science-fiction film of all time, one that created a massive industry of sequels and spinoffs, not to mention copycats, and changed the way that people thought of science-fiction
Raise the Titanic (1980)
Dec 2, 2015Engineering Project to Raise the Titanic
Massively ambitious Clive Cussler adaptation about the attempts to raise the wreck of the Titanic, which became one of the most over-budgeted flops of its day. The actual raising of the Titanic looks utterly magnificent but the rest of the film remains sunken amid murky underwater photography that looks like children's toys shot in a bathtub
Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back (1980)
Apr 4, 2001Space Opera
George Lucas’s first sequel to Star Wars and a work that holds up every bit as well as its predecessor, in many places betters it. The story darkens the mythos and introduces new characters, while the special effects sequences are the peak of the series
Star Wars Episode VI: Return of the Jedi (1983)
Mar 21, 2001Space Opera
A disappointing end to George Lucas’s original Star Wars trilogy. The script lazily wraps up loose ends while sidelining the new characters introduced the last time, and the climax rehashes the climaxes of the two other films
Lovesick (1983)
May 9, 2001Psychotherapy Romantic Comedy/Freud's Ghost
A comedy in which Sigmund Freud's ghost pops up to offer advice to psychologist Dudley Moore after he falls in love with patient Elizabeth McGovern
Kafka (1991)
Jun 7, 2002Fictionalised Author Biopic/Mad Scientists
Steven Soderbergh's second film was this flop pseudo-biopic that places Franz Kafka (Jeremy Irons) alongside mad scientist elements and German Expressionist homages but fails to find much of Kafka's paranoid mood
Mute Witness (1995)
Apr 18, 2010Snuff Movie Thriller
A gripping directorial debut for Anthony Waller where a mute assistant on a film set in Moscow witnesses the shooting of a snuff film and is targeted by the Russian underworld