Eddie Murphy and Owen Wilson play the Sixties TV show characters in director Betty Thomas’s mild, slackly made 2002 action comedy that runs like a poor copy of a Bond movie. Wilson is his usual […]
Thrilling 3D effects spark writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s 2003 third part of his super teen spy series, in which spy-kid Carmen (Alexa Vega) is trapped in a video game by the evil Toymaker (Sylvester Stallone), and her brother […]
Young Alexa Vega and Daryl Sabara return as plucky sibling spies Carmen and Juni Cortez, in writer-director Robert Rodriguez’s brilliantly fast-paced 2002 adventure that is very nearly as dazzling as his 2001 original Spy Kids. This time Carmen […]
Julie Christie enjoyed a rare commercial success in this rather nasty 1977 sci-fi thriller as a scientist’s wife held hostage by a giant mechanised brain. This weird but effective movie has some very telling shock moments […]
Italian maestro film-maker Federico Fellini’s movie La Strada [The Road] won the first official Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1957 (previous winners only got special award Oscars) for this beautiful 1954 character study of […]
Broderick Crawford, Richard Basehart and Franco Fabrizi star as small-time crooks Augusto, Picasso and Roberto, who disguise themselves as priests to swindle the poor, in co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s 1955 Italian neo-realist drama. But, when […]
Co-writer/ director Claude Chabrol’s chilly 1968 personal drama about two lesbians, or perhaps bisexuals, and a male architect is a graceful and deeply satisfying film. Evidently, it is as intensely felt by the actors as […]
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