Nick's Favourites
Through the musty halls of the old Harbour Light Picture theatre Lyttelton and where the old merchant crusty sea captains checked their hand held compasses with the metallic 'star' inbuilt in the foyer floor I knew i had a passion till life's end. Contained therein is my retina's wink of approval with no one genre favoured. Ladies and Gentleman "Cry havoc and let slip the dogs of war'
Thunderbolt and Lightfoot (1974)
7.1/10
Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Jeff Bridges, George Kennedy
Vietnam vet and ex-thief Clint Eastwood teams up with shifty former partners George Kennedy, Geoffrey Lewis and drifter Jeff Bridges to pull off an el... Read more
Thunderheart (1992)
6.8/10
Director: Michael Apted
Starring: Fred Ward, Graham Greene, Sam Shepard, Val Kilmer
An engrossing thriller about a part-Sioux FBI agent sent to investigate a murder on an Indian reservation. Especially notable for its keen attention t... Read more
Tickle Me (1965)
6/10
Director: Norman Taurog
Starring: Elvis Presley, Julie Adams, Jocelyn Lane, Jack Mullaney, Merry Anders, Bill Will...
A light-hearted Elvis romp, with the handsome crooner playing a former rodeo star who signs on to work at a health ranch whose clientele includes bevi... Read more
Tightrope (1984)
6.3/10
Director: Richard Tuggle
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Genevieve Bujold, Dan Hedaya, Alison Eastwood
Clint Eastwood stars as a New Orleans cop who, while hunting down a vicious sex murderer, suffers his own descent into sexual darkness. This razor-sha... Read more
Tigrero: A Film That Was Never Made (1994)
6.8/10
Director: Mika Kaurismaki
Starring: Samuel Fuller, Jim Jarmusch
This acclaimed documentary chronicles the aborted efforts of director Sam Fuller to make an action film in the Brazilian rain forest in 1954. Forty ye... Read more
Time After Time (1979)
7.2/10
Director: Nicholas Meyer
Starring: Malcolm McDowell, David Warner, Mary Steenburgen, Charles Cioffi
H G Wells (Malcolm McDowell) pursues Jack the Ripper (David Warner) into modern day San Francisco via a time machine. An imaginative film notable for... Read more
Time Bandits (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Time Bandits (Blu-ray) (1980)
7/10
Director: Terry Gilliam
Starring: David Warner, Ian Holm, John Cleese, Michael Palin, Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall...
An adventure-fantasy comedy directed by Monty Python's Terry Gilliam featuring John Cleese, Sean Connery and Shelley Duvall, about six dwarfs who esco... Read more
Time Out of Mind (2014)
5.7/10
Director: Oren Moverman
Starring: Ben Vereen, Jena Malone, Kyra Sedgwick, Richard Gere, Steve Buscemi
Oren Moverman's drama Time out of Mind stars Richard Gere as George, a homeless, mentally-ill man who has been unable to hold a job for years. He drif... Read more
To Hell And Back (1955)
7.4/10
Director: Jesse Hibbs
Starring: Charles Drake, Audie Murphy, Marshall Thompson, David Janssen, Denver Pyle
The most decorated American soldier of World War II, Audie Murphy, stars as himself in this gritty, unflinching biography. Follow the exploits of a re... Read more