Jodie Foster stars as little 11-year-old Deirdre Striden, who is dying of heart disease, in the sad 1976 family drama film Echoes of a Summer. Richard Harris and Lois Nettleton play her desperate parents. Director […]
A raw energy, an exceptional cast, flashy visuals and Ry Cooder’s score keep Walter Hill’s misfiring 1989 neo-noir crime thriller film Johnny Handsome rattling along. Mickey Rourke and Ellen Barkin star. Director Walter Hill’s 1989 […]
Butcher’s Film Services’ 1963 British black and white B-movie thriller film Echo of Diana stars two likeable long-time resident Australians in Britain, Vincent Ball and Betty McDowall. Director Ernest Morris’s 1963 British Butcher’s Film Services […]
The nightmarishly disturbing and distressing 2003 Swedish drama film Evil [Ondskan] is set in 1958 in an elite private boarding school in Stockholm, where student sadism and violence are the habitual way of life. Director […]
The 1950 British/ Italian comedy film Her Favourite Husband set in sunny Italy with stars Jean Kent, Robert Beatty, Gordon Harker and Margaret Rutherford can’t be all bad, but it tries hard. Director Mario Soldati’s […]
The 2021 superhero film Spider-Man: No Way Home is good natured enough, but relies too much on the easy-going appeal of Tom Holland as Peter Parker and its gimmick of featuring Andrew Garfield and Tobey […]
Tim Kirkman’s 2005 film Loggerheads is a haunting, beguiling labour of love. Bonnie Hunt, Tess Harper, Michael Kelly and Kip Pardue star in three overlapping stories of estranged families in three areas of North Carolina. […]
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