Director Stuart Walker’s 1935 Universal studios black and white film Mystery of Edwin Drood is a pleasing, atmospheric, satisfying Victorian England period chiller, successfully based on Charles Dickens’s uncompleted 1870 novel, with Claude Rains enjoying a […]
Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]
‘The Laugh-O-Meter Is On!’ ‘He gets more than his fare share!’ Director Stanley A Long’s 1976 British sex comedy Adventures of a Taxi Driver is the first of three fairly dismal and turgid Seventies Brit […]
Director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s 1979 Le Toubib [The Medic] stars Alain Delon as famous surgeon Jean-Marie Desprée, who was left by his wife a month ago, and becomes an army doctor in a movable hospital just […]
Writer-director Harvey Miller’s 1996 comedy Getting Away with Murder stars Dan Aykroyd, Lily Tomlin, Bonnie Hunt, Jack Lemmon and Brian Kerwin. Mild-mannered ethics professor Jack Lambert (Aykroyd) discovers his next-door neighbour is the notorious war […]
A contrived situation, a feeble script? Just call for comedy master Jack Lemmon to bail it out. Director Jay Sandrich’s 1992 TV movie For Richer, for Poorer [Father, Son and the Mistress] stars Jack Lemmon, […]
Director Charles Shyer’s unwanted 1995 comedy Father of the Bride Part II is the off-target sequel to his 1991 Father of the Bride is a partial remake of 1951’s Father’s Little Dividend, the sequel to […]