Author: retromovie

“To Sir With Love”, made in 1967, constantly makes it into many peoples “Top 10 movies of all time” lists, and re watching it last night for the first time in a while, it’s...

Fright is a British thriller made in 1971, and i think it’s fair to say, it’s nothing short of an exercise in pure terror. It was directed by Peter Collinson, who also helmed the...

I would have loved to have been a fly on the wall, the day this movie was pitched to the studio executives. That meeting must have been such a hoot. “Right, we have these...

Please Sir began life as a television comedy show on L.W.T in the late 1960s. It ran for four series, was enormously popular, and was turned into this big screen adaption in 1971. As...

Anyone fancy a Brumburger ??? I went into this movie, knowing absolutely nothing about it, other than it starred Cliff Richard, and it was a musical of some sort. I certainly wasn’t expecting to...

I can’t quite recall the first time i saw Barbarella, but it was more than likely a late night screening on television, nicely tucked away after the News At Ten. It was like nothing...

Nowadays i tend to bandy the word “classic” around, like it’s about to go out of fashion, but i have to say The Goonies really is a classic of 80s cinema. Before i go...

Before i write a single word, i have a confession to make. Until watching Clerks just a few hours ago, i had never seen a Kevin Smith movie. Surely not that big a deal...

One of the the taglines for this movie was “The most important event in our nations history…..What if it never happened”. Consider this. The moon landing in 1969 didn’t actually happen. It was all...

Teenager Harold Chasen, played by Bud Cort, is completely friendless, a loner by choice, neglected by his wealthy mother, and completely obsessed by the concept of death and dying.  All his mother wants is...