The exceptional 1955 musical crime film Pete Kelly’s Blues stars Jack Webb, Janet Leigh, Edmond O’Brien, Peggy Lee, Andy Devine, Lee Marvin and Ella Fitzgerald, and features Jayne Mansfield. It is based on Jack Webb’s […]
Well!, Well!, Well! Director Nick Hurran’s well acted, well written and well directed 1998 British comedy drama Girls’ Night stars Brenda Blethyn and Julie Walters as best friends Dawn and Jackie, also in-laws and factory co-workers, who set […]
Director David Green’s entertaining, sentimental 1988 real-life thriller biopic stars Phil Collins, who makes his star début as 1963 Great Train Robber, Buster Edwards, playing him as a London working-class lad who wants to make […]
Director David Leland’s 1989 comedy stars Jeff Daniels as airline worker family man Ray Macklin, who is suddenly convinced that his number will be up any moment after his best friend dies of a heart […]
In World War Two, three London ladies called Ag, Stella and Prue (Rachel Weisz, Catherine McCormack and Anna Friel) are billeted on a farm in the Dorest countryside, where they have to work for The […]
Debut director David Leland, who also wrote Terry Jones’s 1987 film Personal Services, grabs more mileage the same year from the real-life story of Streatham brothel keeper Cynthia Payne in Wish You Were Here. Début […]
Director Terry Jones’s 1987 British comedy drama Personal Services finds a perfectly cast Julie Walters on great, exuberant form and having a grand old time as brothel madam Christine, inspired by the real-life south London […]
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