Director Edouard Molinaro’s 1980 comedy sequel La Cage aux Folles II finds that part two unexpectedly answers the awkward questions arising from the 1978 part one, La Cage aux Folles, as Michel Serrault and Ugo […]
Director Georges Lautner’s 1985 comedy second sequel La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding [La cage aux folles III: ‘Elles’ se marient] is third time unlucky for the gay duo, in which drag queen Albin […]
The 1982 crime comedy Partners is a disappointing, wrong-headed comedy-drama from American TV’s sitcomic mastermind James Burrows in his bewildering film début. John Hurt and Ryan O’Neal play an odd couple as LA cops probing […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1979 The Passage is a poor, nasty and depressingly violent World War Two action adventure film, wasting the impressive talents of Anthony Quinn, James Mason, Malcolm McDowell, Christopher Lee, Patricia Neal, […]
Director James Dearden’s 1988 British period spy drama Pascali’s Island is based on the novel by Barry Unsworth and is a most satisfying tale of love and spies set on a Greek island just before […]
The 1957 colour remake The Barretts of Wimpole Street is a stiff museum piece of a film, but John Gielgud makes something of the grand role of poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father. […]
MGM’s 1934 Victorian England romantic drama film The Barretts of Wimpole Street showcases a great barnstorming turn by Charles Laughton as poet Elizabeth Barrett’s tyrannical brute of a father, Edward Moulton-Barrett. Director Sidney Franklin’s MGM […]