Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel starts his glittering series of onslaughts on the discreet charm of the bourgeoisie with this tantalising 1962 Surrealist black comedy. There is perhaps a little too much obvious calculation in the […]
Director Luis Buñuel’s first film back in his native Spain after three decades away focuses on Viridiana (Silvia Pinal), a young novice nun full of idealistic illusions who is taken advantage of by her widowed […]
Co-producer/ star Bill Pullman directs himself as rancher hero The Virginian in this stalwart, well-acted fifth filming of the famous classic Owen Wister Western yarn, adapted as a 2000 TV movie by writer Larry Gross. […]
Director Stuart Gilmore’s 1946 Paramount movie is the fourth filming of the famous Owen Wister Western yarn. It lacks some bite in this handling, and Joel McCrea as rancher hero The Virginian and Brian Donlevy […]
An archetypal Western tale about a posse hanging a ranch foreman’s buddy is dusted off as Gary Cooper’s first sound film, which sent him to the top in Hollywood, there to stay for 30 years. […]
A well-matched Molly Ringwald and Randall Batinkoff star as starry-eyed high-school pupils Darcy (Ringwald) and Stan (Batinkoff), who are in love. But, when school swot Darcy gets unexpectedly pregnant, should the lovebirds pack up their […]
Writer-director Ben Elton’s strained 2000 BBC Films comedy is based on his own novel Inconceivable and marks the funny stand-up comedian’s directorial debut. It stars Hugh Laurie and Joely Richardson as Sam and Lucy Bell, […]
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