The talented Alan J Pakula directs and writes this attractive up-market 1989 soap opera. But the warm performances and his intelligent dialogue only partly disguise a smug cuteness lurking in the story. With the chilling […]
The Love Parade is celebrated as the film debut of Jeanette MacDonald, the first talkie directed by Ernst Lubitsch, and a huge box-office hit that helped save the fortunes of Paramount Pictures. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s […]
Elijah Wood stars as a young boy called Mark who comes to live in Maine with his aunt and uncle on the death of his mom, while his father goes on a business trip to Tokyo. […]
Director Richard Donner’s tentative but often moving 1992 story stars Elijah Wood and Joseph Mazzello as two kid brothers retreating into a fantasy world in which they concoct a scheme for a flying machine after […]
‘It takes a special kind of girl to know exactly what she wants… and not give up anything to get it.’ Jami Gertz stars as New Jersey girl Toby Mastallone, who imagines a way out […]
Co-writer/ director Alan J Pakula’s 1990 neo noir adult thriller with four-letter words stars Harrsion Ford as Rusty Sabich, a prosecuting attorney whose life is thrown into turmoil after he has an affair with a […]
This dismayingly violent, nihilistic and empty 1994 contemporary British teen action thriller finds its debut writer-director Paul W S Anderson struggling desperately to control an over-heated vision of lawless gangs roving England’s grim and unpleasant […]
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