Talented Irish director Neil Jordan’s 1989 feature is his first American movie, a remake of director Michael Curtiz’s 1954 movie with Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov, Aldo Ray Joan Bennett and Basil Rathbone. Robert De Niro and Sean Penn play small-time hoods in […]
High Spirits is a gleeful chunk of Irish blarney from the usually heavyweight writer-director Neil Jordan. The critical success of Jordan’s early movies led him from Ireland to Hollywood, where he directed High Spirits and […]
‘In 1916 a rebellion began, to be followed by a guerilla war which would change the nature of Britain’s rule over Ireland forever. The mastermind behind that war was Michael Collins. His life and death […]
Based on Angela Carter’s short stories, co-writer/director Neil Jordan’s 1984 British Gothic fantasy horror film is an alluring, visionary Freudian fairy tale for grown-ups. Spooky, sexy, gorgeous and unique, this is a marvellous, special film. […]
Stephen Rea stars as Irish saxophonist Danny, who gets in way over his head when he witnesses the murder of his band manager and a deaf-mute girl after a gig. After recalling to the police a […]
Producer- director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1937 sincere and over-earnest love triangle comedy drama stars Marlene Dietrich as Lady Maria ‘Angel’ Barker, a woman who is neglected by her English diplomat husband Sir Frederick (Herbert Marshall) and […]
Udo Kier’s dying Count Dracula must drink the blood of virgins, in Paul Morrissey’s stylish and amusing 1974 horror movie Blood for Dracula, with Joe Dallesandro as the handsome handyman. Udo Kier’s dying Count Dracula […]
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