Hot-rods racing, fast vehicles chasing, slapstick comedy and adolescent boys moaning make up Eat My Dust! (1976), a daft and disappointing cars-and-girls road movie from producer Roger Corman and scriptwriter turned director Charles B Griffith. […]
A murderous moggy called Tabitha seems to be bumping off those who are benefiting from its rich elderly owner’s untimely death, in Hammer Films’ sinister 1961 British mystery horror thriller film The Shadow of the […]
Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy drama The Wedding Banquet [Xi yan] is a funny, touching, carefully observed little film with strong performances. Ang based the first half of his movie on the true story […]
Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s scrumptiously tasty 1994 foodie comedy film Eat Drink Man Woman [Yin shi nan nu] is set in his native Taiwan and was his calling card to world movie-making. Shihung Lung stars […]
Ryan O’Neal does well as a blacking-out alcoholic writer, who may have killed during a drunken bender, in Norman Mailer’s intriguing 1987 movie Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Wings Hauser scores as the psychotic new Provincetown […]
Septuagenarian buddies Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas unite for the seventh (and last) time for director Jeff Kanew’s 1986 film Tough Guys, an amiable, entertaining caper about elderly train robbers Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie […]
‘Meet the man with the hilarious plan to hoax the whole world out of a cool million… and coax a one-in-a-million girl into his arms!’ Director Guy Hamilton’s 1960 A Touch of Larceny stars James […]