The Formula (1980) is at best formula film-making from John G Avildsen, the director of Rocky and The Karate Kid, who objected to the MGM studio’s release cut of the picture and unsuccessfully tried to […]
Writer/ producer/ director Andrew Bergman’s 1990 black comedy The Freshman brings Marlon Brando back to a main role on the screen after a decade away to play Carmine ‘Jimmy the Toucan’ Sabatini, a Mafia Godfather who […]
Gene Hackman stars in the 1970 drama film I Never Sang for My Father as a widowed college professor who feels dominated by his aging father (Melvyn Douglas), but has regrets about his plan to […]
Director Clive Donner’s 1986 thriller Dead Man’s Folly is a diverting and ingratiating made-for-TV movie, given a considerable boost by a good production and its top-notch Anglo-American cast. The estimable Peter Ustinov entertains for the fourth […]
Director Gary Nelson’s moderate 1986 Agatha Christie murder thriller Murder in Three Acts offers a new mystery to solve for Peter Ustinov’s Belgian detective Hercule Poirot, who investigates some suspicious deaths by poison after he […]
Peter Ustinov is very welcome back in one of his six appearances as Agatha Christie’s Belgian sleuth Hercule Poirot in the 1985 film Thirteen at Dinner, a TV movie version of Christie’s novel Lord Edgware […]
Really good, serious-minded German thriller. Diane Kruger great! Writer-director Fatih Akin’s In The Fade [Aus dem Nichts] (2017) is a really good, serious-minded, grown-up German thriller. Diane Kruger is great as Katja Sekerci, who seeks revenge after […]
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