Michael Winterbottom’s 1999 drama of working-class Londoners Bill (Jack Shepherd) and Eileen (Kika Markham) and their three lonely grown-up daughters is a typically intense, effective and gloomy tale. They are cafe waitress Nadia, (Gina McKee ) […]
Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]
Director James Whale’s 1936 movie is the superb second version of the classic Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical, based on Edna Ferber’s novel about the lives and loves of Mississippi river folk at the turn-of-the-last-century. […]
Journey’s End (1930) was a huge success and launched the film careers of James Whale and Colin Clive, who stayed on in America to make Frankenstein (1931) together. Debut film director James Whale’s 1930 early […]
The story of ITN newsman Michael Nicholson is re-told in director Michael Winterbottom’s complex, hard-hitting 1997 movie take on the conflict in Bosnia. Stephen Dillane exudes earnest propriety as the British TV journalist (slightly fictionalised […]
Writer-director Stephan Elliott’s 1993 Avengers-style fantasy comedy crime thriller stars a slightly struggling Phil Collins as Roland Copping, a sadistic insurance investigator who gets his kicks from manipulating people’s lives with outrageous games and gimmicks. He […]
The suspenseful 1969 chiller Eye of the Cat stars Michael Sarrazin as a young cat hater who teams up with a beauty-parlour girl (Gayle Hunnicutt) to bump off his rich aunt cat lady (Eleanor Parker) […]
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