Director Volker Schlöndorff‘s 1998 thriller is an interesting failure as a fatally flawed version of James Hadley Chase’s novel Just Another Sucker, adapted here by screenwriter E Max Frye. Woody Harrelson stars as Harry Barber, […]
The Pang Brothers make an international splash with their joint directing debut, this stylish looking, atmospheric, deliriously violent and luridly sentimental 1999 gangster thriller about the life, loves and crimes of a Bangkok deaf-mute hitman […]
In writer-director Boaz Yakin’s unusually intelligent, thought-provoking, complex 1998 drama, Renée Zellweger gives a commendably intense performance as Sonia Horowitz, a wife who feels increasingly isolated from her New York Jewish neighbourhood. She also feels […]
David Oyelowo and Carmen Ejogo do a thoroughly excellent job of portraying Martin Luther King and Coretta Scott King in this sterling re-creation of the civil rights marches of Selma, Alabama. There’s not been a major […]
Director Bennett Miller’s well-acted, classy and interesting but over-rated biopic tries to get under the skin of real-life Olympic wrestling champion brothers Mark and David Schultz, who are lured by multimillionaire sponsor John E. du Pont into […]
Warren Beatty tries very hard, both as producer-writer-director and star, but seems to have lost his touch in this offbeat 1998 satirical comedy drama. He plays, quite well, suicidally disillusioned liberal senator Jay Bulworth, who […]
Writer-director Rob Dolman’s 2002 nostalgic comedy drama has welcome stars in Goldie Hawn and Susan Sarandon as rock groupies Suzette and Vinnie (now known as the serious-minded Lavinia Kingsley), who reconnect after 25 years and go […]
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