Sigourney Weaver and Jeff Daniels star as Sandy and Ben Travis, who desperately try to come to terms with their swimming champion son’s suicide, while the younger brother, Tim (Emile Hirsch), flails around in his […]
Don Cheadle plays Pearl Madison, a juvenile detention centre jail teacher who probes the mystery of just why the teenage boy Leland (Ryan Gosling) killed his ex-girlfriend’s special needs disabled kid brother. Writer-director Matthew Ryan […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s realistic, well-made, strongly cast 1946 film drama of post-war readjustment has a theme and plotlines very similar to those in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946). That much praised film has tended to […]
Director Bruce Robinson again casts his Withnail & I (1987) star Richard E Grant, this time as Denis Dimbleby Bagley, an advertising executive who finds a stress-related boil on his neck that metamorphoses into his doppelgänger. […]
Director Roland Joffé’s religious-minded 1986 British anti-war film stars Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel, a saintly 18th-century Spanish priest, whose Jesuit mission in South America is closed by a papal order. But Robert De Niro also […]
Director Roland Joffé’s 1984 British anti-war film about the friendship of American New York Times journalist Sydney Schanberg (Sam Waterston) and his local journalist guide Dith Pran (Haing S Ngor) is both angry and intelligent. […]
Pauline Collins was Oscar nominated as Best Actress for the 1989 film version of Willy Russell’s stage show Shirley Valentine and won the Best Actress award at the BAFTA Film Awards and the Evening Standard British […]
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