Director René Clair’s enchanting, exquisitely handled pre-World War One romantic comedy-drama Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] (1955), haunted with tragic emotions, is set in a French provincial garrison town. There Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne […]
The tame ghost story film The Woman in Black (2012) is sparked up by Daniel Radcliffe’s strong central performance. The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally dull and tame ghost story that has little […]
Tommy Lee Jones scores as baseball’s greatest hitter, the game’s most feared and hated player, in writer-director Ron Shelton’s compelling 1995 sports biopic Cobb, based on the article and book by Al Stump. All-time baseball […]
The magnificent Rudolph Valentino stars in director Joseph Henabery’s 1925 silent classic drama Cobra as a down-at-heel Italian marquis, Count Rodrigo Torriani, who decides to ‘collect’ women (the cobras of the title), who fascinate him, […]
Director Werner Herzog reunites with his Aguirre, Wrath of God star Klaus Kinski for Cobra Verde in 1988 as an infamous Brazilian bandit, Francisco Manoel da Silva, sent to exploit slaves in West Africa during […]
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1988 senior citizen sci-fi sequel Cocoon: The Return sees the welcome return of the spaced-out Florida wrinklies, with more or less everybody (the entire main cast) returning from the original, but not […]
Director Bruce Geller’s 1973 pickpocket comedy crime drama Harry in Your Pocket is a cute, nifty and pleasing caper comedy, very much of its period, with Michael Sarrazin, James Coburn and Walter Pidgeon as three generations […]