Director Abraham Polonsky’s 1971 adventure Romance of a Horsethief [Romansa konjokradice] [Le Roman d’un Voleur de Chevaux] is a little-seen, virtually ignored box-office flop. Based on a story by Joseph Opatoshu, it is a Jewish […]
Full Moon in Paris [Les Nuits de la Pleine Lune] (1984) is another charmer from Eric Rohmer, with the delightful Pascale Ogier as one of the director’s typically complex, determined and willful heroines Louise, who […]
Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]
Writer-director Eric Red’s 1989 crime thriller Cohen and Tate tells the unlikely but consistently intriguing tale of professional assassins Cohen (Roy Scheider) and Tate (Adam Baldwin), who are assigned to abduct a nine-year-old boy witness to […]
Director Eric Red’s 1991 Body Parts is a lolloping horror-movie mongrel, stitching a timeworn chiller premise into a slick MTV-style package that immerses itself in the horrors of modern technology after micro-surgeon Dr Agatha Webb […]
Director Francesco Rosi’s 1987 Italy / France / Colombia drama Chronicle of a Death Foretold [Cronaca di una morte annunciata] is a major miscalculation, with some embarrassing work from some big names of cinema. It […]
The body in question is Madonna’s and we get to see an awful lot of it in director Uli Edel’s disastrous 1992 erotic courtroom thriller Body of Evidence. Madonna won the 1994 Razzie Award for […]