Gore Vidal’s 1955 American TV play The Death of Billy the Kid starred Paul Newman, and he re-creates his role as Henry McCarty (23 November 1859 – 14 July 1881), who called himself William H […]
F Scott Fitzgerald’s 1931 semi-autobiographical short story of Americans in Paris, Babylon Revisited, makes a loose starting point basis for an interesting though shaky 1954 movie under Richard Brooks’s direction. Its setting is shifted from […]
Director Stacy Title’s edgy and awkward 1995 political black comedy thriller stars Cameron Diaz, Courtney B Vance, Charles Durning, Ron Perlman, Annabeth Gish and Bill Paxton. The screenplay is by Dan Rosen, in which a […]
Director Alan Bridges makes a smooth and satisfying 1982 British film from Rebecca West’s romantic drama novel, first published in 1918. It reunites the stars of Far from the Madding Crowd in an affecting, old-style […]
Richard Dreyfuss and Danny DeVito enjoy themselves as battling tin sellers in the early Sixties in one of writer-director Barry Levinson’s ambitious semi-autobiographical Baltimore comedies made in 1987 between Diner (1982) and Avalon (1990). BB […]
Writer-director Barry Levinson’s 50-year saga of a Russian-Jewish immigrant family in Baltimore is warmly acted by a strong cast, looks superb thanks to cinematographer Allen Daviau and is quite involving and entertaining. It was nominated […]
For playing British wartime Prime Minister Winston Churchill in director Joe Wright’s 2017 movie Darkest Hour, Gary Oldman won the Oscar as Best Actor, Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – […]
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