Director Henry Levin’s handsome-looking, pleasant 1957 musical April Love is a simple, sweet Fifties homespun entertainment for the star Pat Boone’s young fans of all those years ago. If they are still around this might […]
‘At 19, they gave him the streets. Tonight, they’re going to take them back.’ Director Amos Poe’s interesting, tough-toned 1984 crime thriller Alphabet City stars Vincent Spano, then a rising star player apparently going places, […]
Director David Miller’s 1963 film Captain Newman, MD is a hit pre-M*A*S*H war comedy-drama for Gregory Peck, who is stiff as a board as Captain Josiah Newman, MD, a World War Two US Army psychiatrist, […]
‘Love Nesters! Shock Slayers! Sensation Seekers!’… Director Phil Karlson’s excellent 1952 black and white film noir crime thriller Scandal Sheet [The Dark Page] stars John Derek and Donna Reed as New York hot-shot reporters who […]
The 1989 drama Scandal is a major British film about the 1963 Profumo sex, spies and politics scandal, with superb performances by John Hurt as bon-viveur osteopath Dr Stephen Ward and Joanne Whalley as exotic […]
Joss Ackland recalled: ”Then there was Passion of Mind in 2000 with Demi Moore. Terrible script. Awful, actually. But I needed the money.’ And he called Moore ‘alright, but not very bright or talented’. Director […]
Danish director Carl Theodor Dreyer’s landmark 1928 French black and white silent historical film The Passion of Joan of Arc, depicting her trial and execution, had a bumpy ride to the screen, and was a […]