If you like the wacky Sixties title Suppose They Gave a War and Nobody Came?, you might like director Hy Averback’s uneven and unwieldy 1970 army satire about a trio of US tank buddies (Tony […]
Director Ron Peck’s 1987 crime thriller Empire State is an intriguing attempt to bring the American gangster style to Britain in an adult yarn about a young Yankee mobster arriving at the title nightclub to […]
Co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s 1985 British film The Supergrass stars a hugely impressive array of Eighties TV icons: Adrian Edmondson, Jennifer Saunders, Peter Richardson, Dawn French, Robbie Coltrane, Alexei Sayle, Keith Allen, Nigel Planer, Ronald […]
Director Kevin Macdonald’s 2003 Touching the Void is the breathtakingly exciting and awesome Bafta award-winning documentary-style drama, re-creating the events of 1985 when two mountaineers, Joe Simpson and Simon Yates, try to scale the west […]
Director Wayne Wang’s 1989 Eat a Bowl of Tea is a gently amusing, telling and well acted 1940s-set romantic comedy drama about the family troubles of a young Chinese-American, Ben Loy (Russell Wong), when he […]
Comic Strip man, co-writer/ director Peter Richardson’s aggressively unpleasant black comedy Eat the Rich (1987) about a waiter called Alex (Lanah Pellay, aka Al Pillay) getting fired from a trendy restaurant called Bastard’s, where he […]
Director Maria Ripoli’s 2001 romantic comedy drama Tortilla Soup stars Hector Elizondo, who is first rate as retired master chef Martin Naranjo, a cooking-buff Mexican-American widower, living with his three daughters Leticia, Carmen and Maribel […]