Writer-director director Ingmar Bergman (1918–2007) retired from cinema film-making after this stupendous, four Oscar-winning 1982 swansong to the movies. It is a beautiful, endlessly rewarding, masterly and sumptuous family saga, full of telling references to both his […]
Angela Bassett and Edie Falco star as actress Desiree Perry and motel/café owner Marly Temple, two women who join forces to battle greedy Florida real estate developers, in writer-director John Sayles’s well-acted and intriguing but complicated, overlong […]
In 1996 we didn’t actually need a new version of Neil Simon’s perennial hit play about feuding vaudeville partners when there is already the nigh-on ideal 1975 film The Sunshine Boys with George Burns and […]
Walter Matthau and George Burns star in director Herbert Ross’s very lively and amusing 1975 film version of Neil Simon’s play about two aged, feuding vaudeville comics, former partners before they fell out. Jack Benny […]
Producer-writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s haunting and shattering 1972 Swedish movie represents the quintessence of Bergman’s art, with three of his best, most famous players all at their peak, while Kari Sylwan is equally memorable. And there is […]
Director Chuck Russell’s acceptable 1996 action thriller stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as US Marshal John ‘The Eraser’ Kruger, who is sent to protect Dr Lee Cullen (Vanessa Williams), an employee of a maker of secret military […]
RKO’s intriguing, meticulous 1936 soap opera film A Woman Rebels is spurred by a typically spirited, charming performance by Katharine Hepburn as a rebellious Victorian English woman who flouts convention by having a child out […]
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