The 1981 musical biographical documentary This Is Elvis is an intimate, lovingly handled cinema feature biopic of the King, some of it re-enacted as dramatisations but most of it archive footage of home movies, TV […]
This Is My Affair (1937) is a complicated, turn-of-the-last-century (early 20th century) costume crime caper with Robert Taylor as a Navy man called Lieutenant Richard L Perry going undercover to catch some crooks, the leaders […]
Director Nora Ephron’s appealing and amusing 1992 comedy drama This Is My Life stars Julie Kavner, Samantha Mathis, Gaby Hoffmann, Carrie Fisher and Dan Aykroyd. Nora Ephron, the Oscar-nominated writer of Silkwood (1983), When Harry […]
Director Sidney Hayers’s 1964 British black and white social realism drama This Is My Street is a fascinating if low-powered slice of South London life starring Ian Hendry as Harry King, a randy, shiftless lodger […]
The quality 1992 American murder mystery thriller film Thunderheart stars Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene and Fred Ward. Director Michael Apted’s 1992 crime mystery thriller film Thunderheart is written by John Fusco, shot by Roger […]
Director Thom Eberhardt’s 1988 British comedy film Without a Clue is a neat twist on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s Holmes and Watson characters and stars Michael Caine, Ben Kingsley, Jeffrey Jones, Lysette Anthony, Paul Freeman, Peter […]
Fools’ Parade (1971) has a good cast in James Stewart, George Kennedy, Kurt Russell, Strother Martin and Anne Baxter, but it is an uninspiring title for a Western. They changed it in the UK to […]