Director Max Ophüls’s gloriously romantic 1948 movie provides a memorable walk on the wild side of romance here as Joan Fontaine’s character Lisa Berndle is overwhelmed by unrequited love for dashing but self-obsessed womanising pianist Stefan Brand (played […]
Director Chris Bernard’s 1985 British comedy drama has a fine star team in Margi Clarke, Alexandra Pigg, Peter Firth and Alfred Molina and was a much-deserved big hit in its home UK. It tells a […]
Director Angela Pope’s 1989 BBC TV movie Dream Baby is a gritty comedy drama with tender moments, set in a run-down, poll tax-dodging area of Edinburgh. Jenny McCrindle, Kevin McNally and Peter Capaldi star. Director […]
Director Ivan Reitman’s often hilarious 1988 comedy starts with the genius silly idea of pairing the little and large odd couple Danny DeVito and Arnold Schwarzenegger, and letting the two smooth, likeable, skilled laughter-raiser performers […]
Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny DeVito, the likeable stars of Twins (1988), are re-teamed as doctors Alex Hesse and Larry Arbogast for director Ivan Reitman’s less funny but still amusing 1994 silly comedy. Playing off his macho image, […]
Lindsay Anderson films David Storey’s first-rate, moving play In Celebration about three educated sons (Alan Bates, James Bolam and Brian Cox) going back home to celebrate the 40th wedding anniversary of their mam and coal […]
Director Harold Young’s very cheap, risibly awful 1945 sequel to Captive Wild Woman (1943) and Jungle Woman (1944) has almost nothing to recommend it beyond some noble efforts by the actors against the odds and its […]
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