The much missed British gay film-maker Derek Jarman contemplates his life and times in the garden of his own bleakly beautiful seaside home in Dungeness, Kent, England, while he dreams of events in the life of […]
Co-writer/ director Claude Miller’s satisfying 1981 French police thriller is neatly done, atmospheric, gripping and very dark. It won four French César Awards in 1982 – Best Actor (Michel Serrault), Best Supporting Actor (Guy Marchand), Best Screenplay and Best Editing. Michel […]
The intriguing 2000 thriller film Under Suspicion stars Gene Hackman as a smug lawyer suspected of a girl’s murder, who becomes involved in mind games with the investigating police officer (Morgan Freeman). Director Stephen Hopkins’s […]
The 1996 historical adventure film The Ghost and the Darkness stars Val Kilmer and Michael Douglas, and is a fictional version of the two man-eating lions that terrorised workers at Tsavo, Kenya, during the building […]
The fondly remembered Irwin Allen 1965-68 family sci-fi TV series lives again in director Stephen Hopkins’s daft but likeable mega-budget ($90million) 1998 big-screen re-creation. A cast of actors rather than stars take the parts of the […]
You’ve got to hand it to Mr Nice Guy Tom Hanks, he hasn’t given up on Tom Tykwer, the director of his 2012 box-office loser Cloud Atlas. (It cost $102million and earned back only $27million in the US.) […]
Tina Fey throws everything she knows into a big serious star role in which she plays the feisty, workaholic real-life American journalist Kim Barker in an entertaining movie that recounts her wartime coverage in Afghanistan when she’s […]
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