I'm the Honcho of the Hump! A Brit's Take on Hookers, Misfits and Other Fun Movie Stuff

Kubrick's operatic exploration of the cosmos. Popeye Doyle in a commandeered car speeding after an elevated train. Jamie Lee Curtis' bare-breasted turn as a hooker. Alex DeLarge and his droogs on the rampage. The Man with No Name insisting a disbelieving gunslinger apologise to his mule. Sydney Pollack's glorious cross-dressing tale. And an upside-down Concorde outmanoeuvring the firepower of a military jet...

This is why I watch movies.

Or as Spanish director Pedro Almodóvar once mused: 'Cinema can fill in the empty spaces of your life and your loneliness.'

Welcome to part six of Dave Franklin's Ice Dog Movie Guide, another scholarly analysis of cinematic history that somehow doesn't include one word about Adam Sandler.