Director Udayan Prasad’s 1997 interesting, involving and carefully made drama is based on a novel by Hanif Kureishi, the screen-writer of My Beautiful Laundrette, Sammy and Rosie Get Laid and London Kills Me, who writes […]
Great days with Mel Funn! Co-writer/ director Mel Brooks’s inventive and hilarious 1976 movie is a pleasure to watch. It cleverly revives the long-lost art of silent comedy, with Brooks directing himself in a funny turn […]
This self-indulgent, smutty 1981 ‘adult’ comedy from the normally gloriously funny Mel Brooks is a near total flop, despite his genial and ever-welcome presence and that of his equally amiable stock company. It is sad […]
Co-writer/co-producer/director/ star Mel Brooks’s bawdy 1987 movie sci-fi send-up and spoof of Star Wars is a slack but amiable series of sight gags and verbal jokes, most of them not exactly hilarious but some of them just […]
‘Slowly…and with horror the parents realized THEIR CHILDREN WERE THE SLAVES OF THE THING FROM OUTER SPACE!’ Director Jack Arnold’s 1958 Paramount movie is a slice of some simple sci-fi silliness with a peace-mongering moral message that […]
The exciting, intelligent 1973 American dystopian sci-fi thriller film Soylent Green stars Charlton Heston, Leigh Taylor-Young, and Edward G Robinson in his final film role. Charlton Heston, Edward G Robinson, Joseph Cotten, Leigh Taylor-Young, Chuck […]
Laurence Olivier as an elderly Jewish Nazi hunter is the best thing about Franklin J Schaffner’s 1978 big-budget British movie version of Ira Levin’s ingenious thriller novel The Boys from Brazil. Director Franklin J Schaffner’s […]
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