Director Nicolas Roeg’s interesting 1989 TV movie version of the Tennessee Williams play is reworked by teleplay writer Gavin Lambert, apparently using the playwright’s own revisions, though these are not always an improvement on the […]
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1962 movie is a really rather impressive, fine and resonant film version of this esteemed and typical Tennessee Williams play. Paul Newman gives an attractive performance as the ambitious but charming young […]
Donald Sutherland is his usual brilliant self as Garret Lawton, a surprisingly principled hitman, in director Sidney J Furie’s otherwise unremarkable 1996 action comedy thriller, which is burdened down with the heavy weight two weak […]
Director Angela Pope’s 1996 British drama is a bit of a sensationalist hotch-potch, though it is well meaning and, at least by Martin Donovan and Joely Richardson, very well acted. Martin Donovan plays GP Martyn […]
Meg Ryan throws off her nicey-nice image to play Frannie Avery, a a New York City inner city high school English teacher involved with a serial killer, and the NYPD homicide detective, Giovanni Malloy (Mark […]
Jodie Foster both directs and stars in this engaging 1991 labour-of-love drama as New York unmarried mother Dede Tate, trying to bring up her son Fred who is musically, scientifically and emotionally super-gifted. It is […]
The 25-year-old co-writer/ director Louis Malle’s 1958 second feature is a deliciously lyrical love story that caused huge controversy and confirmed the rising reputations of the French director and his star Jeanne Moreau, previously established […]
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