Cult movies

Charlie Chaplin: The Kid IT'S more than a century since Charlie Chaplin delivered his first full feature film, The Kid.

WHEN William Friedkin left us earlier this week at the age of 87, the film world lost one of its greatest ever storytellers.

Orca – The Killer Whale AS THE Meg 2 rises from the deep to terrorise multiplexes this weekend, it feels like a good time to revisit another deep sea cinematic colossus, albeit it one from a decidedly simpler and less bombastic era.

Three Ages THREE Ages is an important film in the story of Buster Keaton.

The Mechanic DIRECTOR Michael Winner made quite a few movies with Charles Bronson as his leading man.

IF I asked you to think of the most iconic rock album covers ever made, chances are that at least a couple of them will have come from the design house Hipgnosis.

ALAN Arkin, who died last week aged 89, was an actor with more than his fair share of fabulous film roles to his name.

Samurai Reincarnation SAMURAI Reincarnation was an unlikely career turn for yakuza legend Kinji Fukasaku when it first surfaced in 1981.

GLENDA Jackson crammed a lot into every era of her life, both in the media spotlight and well away from it, but the late 1960s and early 1970s were a particularly productive period for the woman and her work.

Picnic At Hanging Rock PICNIC At Hanging Rock established Peter Weir as a true star when it first appeared in 1975. A slow-burning and atmospheric tale of innocence lost, it proved a high water mark for Australian cinema and marked the young...