Director Michael Anderson’s meticulously crafted 1957 true-story account of the crippled British warship HMS Amethyst’s escape through heavy fire from being trapped on Yangtse River by the Red Chinese in 1949 is based on the […]
Writer-director Aaron Sorkin’s truly epic biopic of ‘Poker Princess’ Molly Bloom is a knockout. It is 140 mesmerising screen minutes. Both Sorkin’s screenplay and his star Jessica Chastain as Bloom are nothing short of sensational. Kevin […]
Greta Thyssen plays the voluptuous wife of the secretive scientist Dr Charles Girard (Francis Lederer) in director Gerardo de Leon’s entertaining Z-movie version of H G Wells’s The Island of Dr Moreau. Richard Derr plays William Fitzgerald, who is shipwrecked on […]
Jack Lemmon and James Garner star as rival former US Presidents, who join up to expose the corrupt present President William Haney (Dan Aykroyd) after they become targets of a conspirator in his government. The duo set out […]
Excellent – thoughtful and amusing, with a tremendous, clever and witty screenplay, and Ben Stiller great. Writer-director Mike White’s charming 2017 comedy drama is absolutely excellent, with a role as an under-achieving middle-ager that fits […]
Director Rachel Talalay’s likeable 1995 sci-ft action comedy fantasy feature is a funky, quirky cult film with plenty of attitude. Lori Petty invigorates an in-your-face version of the British comic strip as futuristic heroine Rebecca […]
Director Marvin J Chomsky’s old-style 1984 action comedy drama provides a good role for James Garner but unfortunately not a very good film. When his innocent son William ‘Billy’ Carey (C Thomas Howell) is put […]
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