Producer-director Billy Wilder’s 1957 romantic comedy was a critical and box office failure and is still often undervalued, but, rightly, its many admirers now rally to support it with great fervour. Star Gary Cooper was pleased […]
Director Lewis Gilbert’s 1955 British thriller stars Dirk Bogarde, Margaret Lockwood, and Kay Walsh. With John Cresswell’s screenplay based on the play Murder Mistaken by Janet Green, this is a stagey and creaky but still […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1958 British World War Two wartime-set thriller Ice Cold in Alex stars John Mills as a British military man, Captain Anson, who leads an ambulance and its medical field unit passengers […]
Director F Javier Gutiérrez’s lame and struggling 2017 supernatural horror movie is an incoherent, arbitrary and pointless reboot of The Ring (2002) and The Ring Two (2005). Since there is no sign of original series star Naomi […]
Co-writer/ director Daniel Vigne’s highly popular and successful 1982 romantic crime drama, based on the novel by Janet Lewis, finds Gérard Depardieu at a career peak. Depardieu does well, taking on a for him unusual quiet dignity […]
Co-writer/ director Donald Wrye’s sweet 1978 drama stars Robby Benson as a boy who helps an aspiring Iowa Olympic ice figure-skating girl (Lynn-Holly Johnson) to overcome her handicap to pursue her dreams after she is blinded in […]
Director Sydney Pollack’s manly 1972 mountain man movie Jeremiah Johnson is a remarkable outside adventure. It stars Robert Redford as the titular Jeremiah Johnson, who goes from naïve trapper to hardened mountain-dweller and on to […]
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