‘You’re a first class lesbian and a second rate thinker. Must be all those women’s studies.’ Writer-director Sally Potter’s 71-minute black and white tragic-comedy drama is great – stylish, witty and clever. I hadn’t expected […]
Director Don Medford’s 1971 routine second sequel thriller brings Sidney Poitier back for the third and last time as San Francisco Police Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs, the upright cop from 1967’s In the Heat of the Night. […]
Director Gordon Douglas’s 1970 sequel to the 1967 classic In the Heat of the Night is an ordinary, but mildly entertaining thriller, in which Sidney Poitier reprises his role as good cop Lieutenant Virgil Tibbs on […]
Bud Cort stars as a likeably strange, owlish young man who learns to fly with his man-made wings inside the Houston Astrodome, Texas, in director Robert Altman’s appealing 1970 film oddity Brewster McCloud. Bud Cort […]
Edward Anderson’s 1937 novel Thieves Like Us forms the basis of two brilliant, contrasting films, and it was first filmed in 1949 as a beautiful poetic black-and-white film noir by Nicholas Ray as They Live by […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1981 self-consciously old-style romantic comedy stars John Belushi and Blair Brown as the city newsman Ernie Souchak and the eagle-spotter Nell Porter, who are stuck together in the Rockies. Rather unexpectedly, the […]
Talia Shire enjoyed working with John Belushi on Old Boyfriends (1979) and told him he was a great actor when not using drugs, and wanted to work with him again. Belushi didn’t enjoy his role, […]
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