Robert Siodmak’s 1946 psychological suspense thriller The Spiral Staircase is smooth, tense and gripping. Director Robert Siodmak’s suspenseful 1946 psychological thriller The Spiral Staircase is smoothly done, tense and gripping. It is based on the […]
Unexpectedly funny and successful 2012 American comedy-drama starring Barbra Streisand and Seth Rogen, who both are on best form as Jewish mom Joyce Brewster and her inventor son Andy who embark on a bickering, bonding […]
Director Martin Ritt’s 1987 drama stars Barbra Streisand, who works her fingernails to the bone for credibility as a parentally abused high-class call girl, Claudia Draper, who has killed one of her clients called Allen […]
Robert Siodmak directs one of Hollywood’s better Forties psychological film noir thrillers in 1946. It finds Olivia de Havilland on rousing form, enjoying herself enormously in two roles as identical twins Terry and Ruth Collins, one […]
The double Oscar-winning 1973 romantic drama film The Way We Were is a thoroughly professional old-style Hollywood piece of work, well intentioned and entertaining. It’s Streisand and Redford together! Director Sydney Pollack’s double Oscar-winning 1973 […]
Director Herbert Ross’s entertaining but less enjoyable 1975 sequel to Funny Girl has with the inestimable benefit of Barbra Streisand still enjoying herself as singer Fanny Brice, who this time marries the showman Billy Rose (James Caan) and a stormy […]
John Schlesinger’s triumphant 1965 film Darling stars Julie Christie at her most luminous. She won the Best Actress Oscar as an ambitious, amoral English model who sleeps her way to the top of the Swinging […]
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