The 1970 A New Leaf is Elaine May’s first film and still her best movie. She sparkles as writer, director and star of this quirky black comedy about penniless playboy Henry Graham (Walter Matthau) chasing […]
Warren Beatty defends the 1987 mega-flop Ishtar as ‘a very good, not very big, comedy, made by a brilliant woman. And I think it’s funny.’ Disaster struck writer-director Elaine May’s daft little 1987 comedy Ishtar […]
Jack Nicholson and Warren Beatty star in Mike Nichols’s 1975 flop farcical comedy The Fortune as bumbling conmen who abduct an heiress. Stockard Channing is charming and amusing as the heiress. ‘It takes three to […]
Director Edwin L Marin’s 1950 Technicolor Western Colt .45 stars Randolph Scott as Steve Farrell, a gun salesman whose new Colts are stolen by villainous Jason Brett (Zachary Scott) to arm a band of outlaws, so […]
‘RANDOLPH SCOTT…the way Texas went was in his hands…and his six-guns set it straight!’ Director Edwin L Marin’s 1951 Technicolor Western Fort Worth stars Randolph Scott as gunslinger Ned Britt, who retires and then turns […]
Writer-director Peter Weir’s 1974 directorial calling card movie The Cars That Ate Paris is a tense, eerie and atmospheric tale of Australia’s Outback, where a far-flung small community makes its living causing car crashes and […]
Director Daniel Petrie’s 1981 Fort Apache the Bronx is an urgent Eighties police report from deep in New York’s South Bronx area with its derelict tenements, hookers, pimps, wailing police cars, rain-swept streets and murderous assaults […]
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