Melina Mercouri makes a predictably commanding Phaedre, who, though married to powerful Greek shipowner Thanos (Raf Vallone), seduces her stepson Alexis (Anthony Perkins) in her husband Jules Dassin’s interesting but rather heavy-going, free 1962 movie […]
Director Mark Robson’s posh 1957 epic soap opera film Peyton Place stars Oscar nominated Lana Turner as Constance MacKenzie, a shopkeeper with a past, who takes a chance on love with new young high school […]
Kristen Wiig plays Polly, best friend to a nice, well-off gay couple Freddy and Mo (Sebastián Silva, Tunde Adebimpe), in writer-director Sebastián Silva’s intriguing indie satirical drama. The close-knit trio looks to create a life, while being […]
The Man Who Knew Infinity tells a thought-provoking, civilised story, Jeremy Irons and Dev Patel are excellent, and the Cambridge shooting is good too. Writer-director Matt Brown’s old-fashioned 2015 biopic of Indian maths genius Srinivasa Ramanujan Iyengar […]
Writer-director Jeff Nichols boldly goes at having a crack at something a bit different in this dark and brooding 2016 sci-fi chase thriller. It’s an oddball story in which a father Roy and his eight-year-old son Alton Meyer go […]
Director Robert Z Leonard’s 1931 MGM drama is notable for starring the king and queen of Thirties Hollywood in their only screen pairing. Naturally Greta Garbo and Clark Gable make a must-see team in this […]
Richard Lester takes us back to the San Francisco-style kookie Swinging Sixties era, in the interesting but shaky 1968 romantic drama film Petulia. Julie Christie stars as the Arch Kook Petulia, a zany young British […]
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