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 […]
Writer-director Jean-Luc Godard amusingly explores the effects of the media on women’s lives in his involving and erotic depiction of cool married woman Charlotte (Macha Méril)’s love affair with an actor, Robert (Bernard Noël), though […]
Writer-director Claude Chabrol is on peak form in the wonderful 1968 French psycho-sexual murder thriller La Femme Infidèle [The Unfaithful Wife]. And so is his then wife Stéphane Audran as Hélène Desvallées, the smart, unfaithful […]
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