Albert Finney tries very hard in director Mike Figgis’s completely unwanted 1994 remake of The Browning Version, the fine 1951 film version of Terence Rattigan’s touching one-act play. It is now way out of its time, […]
Anthony Asquith’s 1951 British drama film The Browning Version is based on the 1948 play by Terence Rattigan and stars Michael Redgrave as an ageing classics master at an English public school forced into retirement […]
Jim Carrey is back on track in director Tom Shadyac’s 2003 comedy as Bruce Nolan, a troubled Buffalo New York TV reporter who gets fired, mugged and rows with his girlfriend, Grace (Jennifer Aniston). There is only […]
Director Sydney Pollack teams up with Robert Redford again in 1979 for an interesting, if weird mix of modern-day Western, media satire and populist romanticism. It teams Redford with Jane Fonda, his 1967 co-star in Barefoot in […]
Robert Redford stars as a reforming prison warden in the liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller film Brubaker. Director Stuart Rosenberg’s liberal-minded 1980 real-life thriller vehicle for Robert Redford is a well-meaning, sincerely done but sombre, unexciting […]
Director Walter Grauman’s excellent 1964 thriller is tough, gripping and scary. It finds Olivia de Havilland well cast and on good form as Mrs Cornelia Hilyard, a wealthy widowed invalid authoress trapped a dozen feet short […]
The super-charged 1974 action crime thriller film The Taking of Pelham 123 is the real deal. Walter Matthau, Robert Shaw, Martin Balsam and Hector Elizondo are irreplaceable. It has been remade twice, but director Joseph […]
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