Queen Latifah stars as Georgia Byrd in an amusing and enjoyable remake of the 1950 British semi-classic Last Holiday with Alec Guinness, in a project intended for John Candy but shelved on his death. Queen Latifah plays […]
Pierce Brosnan scores a hit as a world-weary hit-man, who drags failed salesman Greg Kinnear into his crazy way of life in Mexico. Much later, a desperate Brosnan turns up at Kinnear’s home to seek […]
Kate Hudson stars in the 2005 horror movie The Skeleton Key as Caroline Ellis, who takes a job as live-in carer at the Louisiana plantation house of elderly Violet Devereaux (Gena Rowlands), looking after her […]
Producer Paul Newman and his wife Joanne Woodward make an excellent film team as the director and star of this sensitive 1968 movie based on the novel A Jest of God by Margaret Laurence. In […]
Joanne Woodward won the 1958 Best Actress Oscar (and Golden Globe) as a real-life housewife from Georgia suffering from a rare multiple personality disorder, in the 1957 drama film The Three Faces of Eve. Joanne […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1968 movie of Bernard Malamud’s much admired novel is forceful and well meaning. But is also long, slow-moving and very hard going and was therefore unsurprisingly not popular at the box office. However, it […]
Writer-director Dalton Trumbo’s brilliant and devastating 1971 movie stars Timothy Bottoms as bomb-wounded First World War soldier Joe Bonham who wakes up without half his body. He has no limbs, sight, hearing or speech. When […]
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