‘They murdered his wife. His friends deserted him. His associates betrayed him. He thinks someone is trying to kill him. He’s dead right.’ Director Jonathan Demme’s artificial, but often edge-of-seat 1979 Alfred Hitchcock-style neo noir […]
Jeff Daniels stars as Warren Harding who shoots his wife Helen (Joan Allen)’s lover dead in a rage, and later claims that he thought he was killing an intruder to get himself off the hook. […]
Mark Wahlberg takes over the old Michael Caine role as master thief Charlie Croker in director F Gary Gray’s fast-paced and enjoyable enough, if uninspired 2003 total revamp of the classic Sixties crime caper The […]
Oprah Winfrey gives up the talk show day job to be producer-star of her pet project, a lavish and reverentially handled, but ponderously achieved 1998 film version of Toni Morrison’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved. […]
Director Claude Chabrol’s 1959 Hitchcockian suspense thriller is good if not his best. But it is engagingly told in slick, colourful style with self-conscious flashbacks, witty dialogue and a surprise finish. It is Chabrol’s third […]
Director Jonathan Demme’s interesting, amusing and fun but hesitant and halting 1984 romantic comedy is a mixed bag of goodies, with the rare treat of starring Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell together. Hawn stars as […]
David Byrne: ‘Thanks! Does anybody have any questions?’ Director Jonathan Demme’s 1984 concert film featuring the Eighties thinking person’s top rock act, Talking Heads, is a now iconic, superbly stylish music documentary and innovative concert […]
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