Set in the 1930s, an American with a scandalous reputation on both sides of the Atlantic must do an about-face in order to win back the woman of his dreams.

Sam Rockwell and Frances O'Connor in Piccadilly Jim (2004)

Entertaining Hodge-Podge of Wells Stories

In 1946 London, a reporter interviews H.G. Wells about his association with an enigmatic scientist and their paranormal experiments involving time travel. She's revealed to be an undercover agent with a mysterious linked to the mysteries.

Pip Torrens and Tom Ward in The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells (2001)

Don't believe everything see in the movies

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

Sean Penn and Naomi Watts in Fair Game (2010)

Professional assassin Martin Blank is sent on a mission to a small Detroit suburb, Grosse Pointe--where, by coincidence, his 10-year high-school reunion party is about to take place.

John Cusack and Minnie Driver in Grosse Pointe Blank (1997)

British spy George Trent disappears in Ibiza. Appleton Porter is sent to investigate, questioning hotel guests who were Trent's neighbors. Trent survives assassination attempts while unraveling the mystery.

Scottish mining engineer and adventurer Richard Hannay upholds his own moral code while navigating thrilling escapades in early 20th century Britain.

Anthony Valentine, Tim Barlow, Robert Powell, and Gavin Richards in Hannay (1988)

An American movie company wants to shoot a science-fiction film using a British army barracks as a location, and its soldiers as actors.

Peter Sellers, Margot Grahame, and Brian Reece in Orders Are Orders (1954)

20th century astronaut Buck Rogers emerges out of 500 years of suspended animation into the 25th century where Earth is nearly devastated by nuclear warfare and now threatened by alien invaders.

A group of tourists arrive at a half-finished hotel in Spain where the oddly identical staff and bad weather threaten the building's stability.

Agent Simpkins and trainees chase STENCH (the Society for the Total Extinction of Non-Conforming Humans) for a stolen chemical formula, using gadgets and disguises to defeat villains The Fat Man, Dr Milchman, and Dr Crow.

Charles Hawtrey, Bernard Cribbins, and Barbara Windsor in Carry on Spying (1964)

Might Not Have Been So Bad if it wasn't a Carry On

History is only slightly rewritten: instead of experienced sailors, there are only convicts whose last and only meeting with H2O was their prison diet of bread and water. And Columbus doesn't have his own map.

The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.

The economic and cultural growth of Colorado, spanning two centuries, from the mid 1700s to the late 1970s.

Hoping for positive publicity, a tobacco company offers $25 million to any American town that quits smoking for 30 days. Amidst a media frenzy, Eagle Rock, Iowa accepts the challenge while the company's PR man tries to sabotage the effort.

The world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".

Raquel Welch, Peter Sellers, and Ringo Starr in The Magic Christian (1969)

Barry and Garry run a pub in the West End of London. Each week their friend, certified cockney geezer Dodgy Phil, comes up with scheme to attract more punters. For example, turning the pub into a Michael Caine-themed restaurant, or making it a pub-cum-bookshop. Usually this ends in disaster and the pub is destroyed. In the meantime numerous film references are dropped

A noted professor and his dim-witted apprentice fall prey to their inquiring vampires, while on the trail of the ominous damsel in distress.

A Different Sort of Clouseau, for Better or Worse

A string of robberies has occurred in Britain and it's up to Inspector Clouseau to catch the criminal.

Following his father's early death and the loss of possessions in France, young Henry VI comes to the throne, under the protection of the Duke of Gloucester. He is unaware that there are other claimants to the throne, Plantagenet of York and Somerset of Lancaster, whose factions will ultimately cause the Wars of the Roses. Ignorant of the schisms, Henry tries to unite them in the Hundred Years' War, capturing Joan of Arc, before he marries Margaret of Anjou to unite England and France. However, there is no dowry, angering the court. Margaret finds the pious Henry a dull husband and embarks upon an affair with Somerset as well as crossing Gloucester's wife Eleanor. When Gloucester is arrested for alleged treason because of Eleanor, Henry is too feeble to prevent his death or the country slipping into civil war.

Brenda Blethyn in The First Part of Henry the Sixth (1983)

Sid Caesar stars as the bumbling right-hand man of mob boss Robert Ryan, who is sent to find a corpse buried in a suit lined with stolen mob money.

After Algernon discovers that his friend Ernest, has created a fictional brother for whenever he needs a reason to escape dull country life, Algernon poses as the brother, resulting in ever-increasing confusion.

Two scientists with a secret time travel project find themselves trapped in the time stream and appearing in notable periods of history.

Whole doesn't add up to the sum of its parts

A pilot, stranded in the desert, meets a little boy who is a prince on a planet.

Steven Warner in The Little Prince (1974)

Harry, The Odd Fellow, is a tenement worker who lives alone in a shack alongside a warehouse and longs for the companionship of a wife and children like other men.

Harry Shelby receives his first pair of long pants. He immediately falls in love with a cocaine-smuggling flapper named Bebe. When Bebe is imprisoned, he decides to rescue her; to do this, he must break off his forthcoming wedding to his childhood sweetheart Priscilla by any means necessary--including murder.

vox-sane's reviews

Piccadilly Jim

Wodehouse Brazil

The Infinite Worlds of H.G. Wells

Entertaining Hodge-Podge of Wells Stories

Fair Game

Don't believe everything see in the movies

Grosse Pointe Blank

Hilariously Violent

The Trouble with Spies

The Trouble with Movies

Hannay

Not Buchan but Fun

Orders Are Orders

Interesting for Historical Reasons

Buck Rogers in the 25th Century

Dropped like a Rock

Carry on Abroad

Nicely Representative Carry On Cast

Carry on Spying

More Than a Carry-On

Carry on Columbus

Might Not Have Been So Bad if it wasn't a Carry On

The Taming of the Shrew

A Good but Imperfect Shrew

Centennial

The Whole Not as Good as Parts

Cold Turkey

Pretty Good Satire

The Magic Christian

Shaggy Dog Story that Scratches in Spots

World of Pub

Love or Leave the World of Pub

The Fearless Vampire Killers

Best at Starting Post and Finish Line

Inspector Clouseau

A Different Sort of Clouseau, for Better or Worse

The First Part of Henry the Sixth

Take What You Can Get

The Busy Body

Enjoy with Low Expectations

The Importance of Being Earnest

Almost Perfect

The Time Tunnel

Is it Good or is it Nostalgia

The Little Prince

Whole doesn't add up to the sum of its parts

Three's a Crowd

Misjudged

Long Pants

Ahead of its Time

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