John Huston’s intensely smouldering 1984 metaphorical drama film Under the Volcano finds Albert Finney on scalding form, giving a blazing performance as an alcoholic former British consul in Thirties Mexico. Director John Huston’s intensely smouldering […]
Director John Huston’s intense and moving 1987 final film is his last testament. He died on August 28 1987, aged 81, before the film was released and before he could film his last screenplay Mr North, which […]
Director John Huston’s brilliant 1979 film version of Flannery O’Connor’s dramatic Deep South tale is nothing short of inspired. In arguably still his best performance to date, Brad Dourif gives a brilliant portrait of a […]
British director Jonathan Lynn’s American 1992 situation comedy has its moments, though it is often boring and unsubtle, as it is written (by Dale Launer) and directed with clumsy hands. However, the hard-working actors deliver […]
Jim Carrey’s pet detective Ace Ventura heads for the hills to find an abducted sacred white bat and keep the peace between African tribes, in writer-director Steve Oedekerk’s defiantly non-PC, non-funny 1995 sequel. Exuberant but repellent, this […]
Co-writer/ director Tom Shadyac’s puerile 1993 comedy is a series of idiotic, juvenile, and often offensive low-jinks, with an infuriatingly smart-aleck central performance by Jim Carrey as Ace Ventura, the goofy private detective who concentrates […]
Co-writer director David Lynch’s stupendous 1980 movie sets out to tell the true life story of John Merrick, known as The Elephant Man, based on the book The Elephant Man and Other Curiosities by Sir Frederick […]
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