le bambole (1965)

aka Four Kinds of Love. Les poupées. The Doll that Took the Town. The Dolls.
Four separate romantic comedy stories based on episodes in Boccaccio's Decameron, each features a different sex symbol (Virna Lisi, Monica Vitti, Elke Sommer and Gina Lollobrigida).
Four different, light hearted and extremely light weight stories, that are drawn out beyond their naturual length, but being a 60's film it at least looks stylish.

re-animator (1985)

aka H. P. Lovecraft's Re-animator.
In this H.P. Lovecraft tale, Herbert West (Jeffrey Combs), is a medical student who has discovered a way of re-animating the dead, using a special serum. After the suspicious death of his professor in Switzerland, West moves to New England and enrolls in a medical school there to continue his research. He immediately argues with his professor, Dr Hill and unwittingly involves another student Dan Cain and his girlfriend in his experiments, with predictable and gory results.
A classic horror-comedy, where all the parts come together, from the actors, the special effect and the script. They all combine to make a film which whizzes by is a blizzard of blood and hysterical set pieces. A must see, as long as you have a strong stomach.

gorgo (1961)

After an earthquake disrupts a small fishing village in the West of Ireland, a salvage ship captures a large dinosaur like creature. A circus owner pays them to display it in London and names it Gorgo. But what they don't know is that Gorgo is in fact a youngster and his mother wants him back.
An unasshamed rip off of Godzilla, a bit of King Kong and some Beast From 20,000 Fathoms, but adds the twist of a mother's love and her distruction of just about every bit of London a tourist will know of: from the houses of parliament to Piccadilly Circus, they all get stomped. A surprisingly good cast, including Bill Travers and William Sylvester, get to run around as a child spouts portents of doom at them. Not up to the mark of the original Godzilla, but still an enjoyable twist to the genre.

telstar (2009)

The story of how an unassuming engineer went on to produce some of the most amazing music of the early 60's, and all from his flat above a leather goods shop. But then fame, the struggle to keep banging out the hits, his unfortunate arrest for cottaging and an untimely court case turned him into a gibbering wreck and eventual murderer.
It would be hard not to make an interesting film out of the life of Joe Meek and this, based on the play of the same name, manages to just about do it by covering his last seven years, whilst packing in cameo performances from many of the performers he terrorised/made famous. But unfortunately we get the usual lackluster performances from a few of the characters, whose supposed witty banter never gells. At times it's all to stilted. But overall it gives a feel for what it would have been like to hang around Hollyway Road.

escape route (1952)

aka I'll Get You.
George Raft is an FBI agent on the trail of kidnapped nuclear scientists. He smuggles himself into Britain and teams up with a beautiful British military intelligence officer (Sally Gray). George ends up battling it out with the crooks where every self respecting crime drama in London ends up - the docks, defeats them and still has enough left in him to charm the lady!
An undemanding quota quickie, starring a tired looking Raft, that Lippert took to America.

the helicopter spies (1968)

UNCLE persuade a safe cracker to help them obtain a weapon from the master criminal Dr Karmusi, in exchange for an amnesty from his previous activities. But UNCLE don't plan on him stealing the thermal prism for himself. He decides to enlist the Cult of the Third Way to help him take over and rule the world. Can Napoleon and Illia get the weapon back and prevent Sebastian's dastardly plan?
Originally two episodes of The Man From UNCLE, called 'The Prince Of Darkness Affair', this was combined and sent out as a theatrical release. An entertaining and light weight spy thriller, that never takes itself seriously and an emphasis on campy good fun and bizarre villains. It's also full of guest appearances, from Carol Lindley, a silent John Carradine and Julie London popping up from time to time.

my man godfrey (1936)

It's the depression and the blue blood socialites are out on a scavenger hunt at the city dump. One of the dizzier members of the party is Irene Bullock (Carole Lombard), who bumps into Godfrey (William Powell), a down and out, who she ends up hiring as family butler. Once in their mansion he finds he's serving a family of bizarre acting idle rich. Then things start to get complicated when Irene declares her love for Godfrey, who tries to persuade her that a romance between servant and employer is out of the question. And then there is the question of Godfrey's mysterious past?
The epitome of the screwball comedy that they just cannot make anymore. A film that never puts a foot wrong, it will make you laugh and hopefully make you think.

snakehead terror (2004)

A down at heal town tries to revive it's fishing industry by dumping human growth hormone into the local lake. Like all these sorts of plans it only serves to mutate the local snakehead fish, into giant, aggressive and very hungry creatures. Unfortunately for the town they've already eaten everything in the lake, and able to survive and move on land, they come inland in search of something to eat! It's up to the local Sheriff and the requisite cute biologist to save the town, from being eaten alive.
The film is filled with everything a good b movie requires, ok acting, teenagers, a monster of some kind, (in this case fish), unintentional laughs, and some scary bits. An Ok movie if you approach it in the right way, it's a monster movie not war and peace so treat it as such and it'll fill 90 minutes without too much trouble.

my name is bruce (2008)

Gold Lick is a small mining town that is ravaged by a Chinese war demon when some teenagers disturb it. The surviving teen goes is search of the one man he thinks can help them, Bruce Campbell. Bruce believes it to be a wind up by his agent but plays along, until it finally dawns on him that the demon is for real! Now what's an over the hill, cowardly, b movie actor to do?
A film made by Bruce Campbell, for Bruce Campbell fans and it delivers in all the right ways. Bruce takes great delight in playing an obnoxious, demanding and annoying actor. The comedy is very broad but works on many levels. There's the obvious references to Bruce and his b movie career, (in jokes that Bruce fans will revel in), and then to Hollywood, the people and the processes involved in it. So sit back and watch it for what it is, a sometimes lame, sometimes corny, b movie taking the piss out of lame and corny b movies.

spider baby (1968)

aka Attack of the Liver Eaters. Cannibal Orgy, or the Maddest Story Ever Told. Jack Hill's Spider Baby. The Liver Eaters.
Bruno (Lon chaney Jr) is the carer for three children who suffer from a hereditary disease, which causes them to mentally, and physically regress. They are dangerously demented and Bruno spends much of his time covering up their psychopathic antics. They live in a rundown mansion in the country, but trouble comes when some relatives arrive intent on evicting them, so they can sell the house. They soon find out the threesome can be more than a handful to look after.
A weird story circling about the family with Chaney and the rest of the cast giving suitably over the top performances. Classic B movie fodder, sometimes slow moving, but effective comedy horror that nods to Chaney's past glories.