Gillian Anderson gives a knockout performance as the romantic but eventually tragic Lily Bart, in British director Terence Davies’s exquisite 2000 film adaptation of the early-20th-century-set novel by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. One […]
Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s bitter-sweet comedy stars Lola Kirke as Tracy, a lonely college freshman at Barnard University, whose New York way of life is turned upside down by her impetuously adventurous soon-to-be stepsister Brooke (Greta Gerwig) […]
Absolutely Anything… except laughs. Well, to be fair, there are a couple of chuckles in co-writer/director Terry Jones‘s struggling sci-fi comedy, a lesser variant of Bruce Almighty. It plays like an update on a cosy Fifties […]
Writer-director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s chic, smart and sophisticated 1991 romantic comedy drama stars John Malkovich and Andie MacDowell as a more or less completely broke American couple who nevertheless live in style and luxury in a posh […]
Director Robert Stevenson’s sweet, lovingly crafted 1937 film drama stars Will Fyffe as an old Scots farmer called Adam McAdam who has a sheepdog by the name of Black Wull, which is alleged to be […]
Co-producer/writer/director Richard Shepard’s 1999 psychological thriller is busy, twisting and nasty toned. Maura Tierney stars as Madeline Foster, a sado-masochistic police detective who tries to free a hostage who’s been buried alive at gunpoint in […]
Writer-director Kaneto Shindo’s ultra-thrilling, scary and imaginative 1964 Japanese horror story is a brilliant original. Shindo’s plot is about a 14th century Japanese mother and her daughter-in-law, grieving for their beloved son and husband, who […]
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