Derek Royle Movies
- 1988
- PG
This is a TV remake of the Cary Grant/Ingrid Bergman vehicle, in which a British actress begins an affair with an American diplomat. ~ Jason Ankeny, Rovi
- Starring:
- Robert Wagner, Lesley-Anne Down, (more)
- 1980
- R
Director Bertrand Tavernier provides an unexpected feminist slant to the otherwise standard sci-fi trappings of Death Watch. Harvey Keitel plays a man of the future who has had a camera implanted in his brain. The mechanism, which is endowed with special X-ray properties, is activated by the user's eyes. Keitel is assigned by ruthless TV producer Harry Dean Stanton to secretly probe the subconscious of a dying woman, played by Romy Schneider. Stanton is only interested in the grim spectacle of what goes on inside the brain of someone who knows she's doomed. Keitel, on the other hand, becomes increasingly compassionate--and disgusted by the tawdriness of his assignment--as he stares into Schneider's tortured psyche. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
- Starring:
- Romy Schneider, Harvey Keitel, (more)
- 1974
In this vintage bit of British sexploitation, Henry (Roger Lloyd-Pack) is a successful architect who has begun to lose control of his all-consuming desire for women. When assigned to design a new pair of housing blocks, Henry gets the rather eccentric notion that they should be modeled after a woman's breasts. Thus begins a frantic, obsessive search for the perfect "models" for his design, leading him through personal ads, pick-ups, street tramps, and screenings of "adults-only" films in his never-ending quest. Director Alan Birkinshaw later went on to more respectable work, helming television productions and a pair of Edgar Allan Poe adaptations, House of Usher and Masque of the Red Death. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
- 1973
- PG
In this comedy, based on a stage play, a randy politician gets in trouble for sleeping with his secretary and another woman. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- 1968
Set in a futuristic world where man and machines compete, this comical fantasy centers upon a rather eccentric man who prefers raising his special giant, euphoria-producing mushrooms to working and spending time with his fiancee. He means well, for he believes that his funny fungus will help combat the increasing dehumanization of society. However, unable to withstand his bride's pressure, he finally takes a real job in a power plant. There he knocks out the power and then feeds his mushrooms to the authorities. While they walk around in a hallucinatory daze, he and his fiancee take a baby carriage filled with mushrooms and hightail it out of town. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
- Starring:
- David Warner, Cilla Black, (more)
- 1967
- G
After the success of the Sgt. Peppers LP, the Beatles decided to hire a psychedelic bus, take a trip into the English countryside, and film the results, no matter how bizarre or boring. With a motley cast of characters, the group basically tramps about the landscape with occasional music cues to give the film a bit of flow. Though Magical Mystery Tour is an interesting document of the Beatles psychedelic period, its cinematic function is negligible. ~ John Bush, Rovi
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