Director Joel Schumacher’s 1999 thriller stars Nicolas Cage as Tom Welles, a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Welles is called in by a rich old lady and her lawyer Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald) […]
The intriguing 1950 thriller film Crisis stars Cary Grant as a renowned American neurosurgeon compelled to try to save the life of a dying South American leader (José Ferrer) with a brain tumour. Writer-director Richard […]
Cary Grant was not happy while making the intriguing though flawed 1946 Cole Porter musical biopic Night and Day, clashing often with director Michael Curtiz, mostly over a ‘weak script with lousy characterisations’. With rumours […]
Kevin Kline stars as gay composer Cole Porter, who reviews his career and life with his understanding wife, Linda (Ashley Judd) in director Irwin Winkler’s dramatically intriguing, highly tuneful musical biopic. Both stars give supremely stylish […]
Director Gabriele Salvatores’s charming, easy-going 1991 Italian movie, dedicated to ‘all those who are running away’, is a highly appealing piece of film-making that won the Best Foreign Language Film Oscar in 1992. Based on […]
The 1986 American teen romantic comedy film Pretty in Pink is one of the fondly regarded Brat Pack movies of the Eighties. It stars Molly Ringwald, Jon Cryer, Andrew McCarthy and Harry Dean Stanton. Writer-producer […]
Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]
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