James Earl Jones gives a knockout performance as the world’s first black heavyweight boxing champion, in Martin Ritt’s 1970 drama film The Great White Hope. Director Martin Ritt’s 1970 drama film The Great White Hope […]
Director Robert Aldrich’s 1977 The Choirboys is a raw and repulsive black-comic crime thriller about the delinquent members of an American police department in Los Angeles, the Wilshire Divison of the Los Angeles Police Department. […]
Director Alain Corneau’s 1981 Choice of Arms [Le Choix des Armes] stars Yves Montand and Gérard Depardieu as the old retired robber hood Noel Durieux and the menacing young gangster Mickey, who fight it out […]
Isadora (1966) is the vivacious, deservedly much admired Ken Russell TV movie version of the life of the 1920s American dancer Isadora Duncan, with a most compelling, attractive and genial lead performance by Vivian Pickles […]
Director Marek Kanievska’s 1987 Less than Zero is a very wobbly film version of the Bret Easton Ellis cult novel, which is much changed and a great deal less interesting. Andrew McCarthy stars as Princeton college […]
The 1954 Swedish black and white romantic comedy drama A Lesson in Love [En Lektion i Kärlek] is written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. Bergman probes marital boredom and the unsatisfactory solution of adultery in […]
The tame and tawdry 1978 British sex comedy film Let’s Get Laid stars Robin Askwith as Gordon Laid, who ‘is getting stuck in some very tight places.’ ‘Gordon Laid is getting stuck in some very […]