Director Clarence Brown’s shaky 1936 historical drama is notable for the romantic teaming of two of MGM’s finest, Joan Crawford and Robert Taylor, as hussy innkeeper’s daughter Peggy O’Neal Eaton and the US navy lieutenant she […]
Director Herbert Ross’s expensive ($9 million) big-scale musical version of the famous 1939 Robert Donat weepie was a dangerously risky idea in the radical days of 1969 and it duly flopped despite the MGM fanfare […]
Director Jeremy Summers’s inventive and amusing 1965 British short comedy tells the story of the misadventures of a British camper-van family led by Dad and Mum (David Lodge, Joan Sims) wordlessly with just a soundtrack and sound effects. The […]
This disappointing, misjudged, awkwardly plotted Coen Brothers-style dark comedy crime thriller just doesn’t catch fire despite the frenzied efforts of the talented cast and director. I say Coen Brothers-style film, and they originally wrote the script […]
Expert screen-writer Simon Beaufoy, of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire fame. retells the true story of the 1973 tennis match between female world number one Billie Jean King and male ex-champ and gambler/hustler Bobby Riggs. It gets […]
‘A Film by BOB DYLAN.’ Bob Dylan is Renaldo and Sara Dylan (Mrs Dylan) is Clara, Ronnie Hawkins is Bob Dylan and Ronee Blakley is Mrs Bob Dylan in director Bob Dylan’s odd 1978 epic […]
At the top of their game, Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld are stupendous in director Noel Black’s satisfying, offbeat 1968 thriller based on Stephen Geller’s novel She Let Him Continue, mixing in a little twisted […]
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