Director Victor Fleming’s 1942 MGM black and white drama Tortilla Flat is a well-acted and appealing version of John Steinbeck’s novel of life among the Mexican-American peasants of Monterey in California. There is plenty of […]
Talented and likeable but variable comedic actors Jim Belushi [James Belushi] and John Ritter can’t get writer-director Dennis Feldman’s weird 1987 spy action comedy Real Men started, thanks to a lame script and a flat […]
Director Russell Mulcahy’s 1993 film The Real McCoy stars Kim Basinger as Karen McCoy, an expert cat-burgling ex-con trying to go straight, who gets out of prison but is dragged back into a life of […]
The 1979 mockumentary film Real Life is a funny, inventive early comedy from the talented writer-director Albert Brooks, who also plays himself, a loathesome toad of a documentary film-maker recording the lives of an average […]
‘The greatest adventure ever born!’ Director B W L Norton’s 1985 family sci-fi adventure Baby: Secret of the Lost Legend found Walt Disney studios in trouble with a fumbled Eighties King Kong-style adventure with a […]
Elliott Gould and Susannah York play Harry and Sue Lewis, the present day couple in Falling in Love Again, a shambling 1980 American romantic drama film, with keen young Steven Paul (only 20 at the […]
Director Ulu Grosbard’s 1984 American romantic drama film Falling in Love stars Robert De Niro and Meryl Streep as Manhattan commuters, Frank Raftis and Molly Gilmore, both of them married, who have a brief encounter in […]