Eddie Murphy’s energy and charm are severely tested on director Tony Scott’s extremely inferior 1987 sequel to 1984’s great hit Beverly Hills Cop. Predictably, Scott mostly dumps the original’s comedy element in favour of unsubtle strong […]
Director Penelope Spheeris’s 1993 television sitcom spinoff of the much-loved nine-season The Beverly Hillbillies (1962–1971) is amiable and harmless, and it certainly tries hard. But alas it is not much of a success thanks to […]
The title The Stupids gives cause for great fear, but this 1996 movie turns out to be a surprisingly tolerable comic-book comedy, with a genial and funny star turn by Tom Arnold as Stanley Stupid, […]
Co-writer/ director Penelope Spheeris ghastly 1994 remake of Hal Roach’s 1930s short-film comedy series is like a slap in the face, in which Alfalfa (Bug Hall) falls for a girl – Darla (Brittany Ashton Holmes) – […]
Writer-director Henri-Georges Clouzot’s stylish last film is his only one in colour. An unclassifiable erotic and psychological thriller, it focuses on the troubled mentality of an attractive young a television editor called Josée (Élisabeth Wiener) who […]
‘Don’t f**k with me fellas. This ain’t my first time at the rodeo.’ – Joan Crawford. Co-writer/ director Frank Perry’s 1981 biopic of Joan Crawford is deliriously kitsch and trashy ultra-extravagant entertainment, now established as […]
Karel Reisz and Tony Richardson co-direct the classic short British documentary film Momma Don’t Allow about a night at the Wood Green Jazz Club in north London, shot in black and white on 16mm film […]
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