Writer-director John Duigan’s engrossing, beautifully crafted, sharp-witted 1991 coming-of-age tale is set in Australia during the 1960s in the gothic oppressions of an Australian public boarding school for boys, who are at the mercy of […]
Writer-director Mark Steven Johnson’s 1998 family drama is a truly heartwarming, lovely and adorable experience. It is set in late-1950s America, and focuses on a tiny boy named Simon Birch (played by Ian Michael Smith), […]
Kevin Reynolds directs this ambitious, enormously popular, big-budget 1991 Robin Hood movie plainly, unimaginatively and hesitantly, struggling to get the pace and mood right. A hefty re-edit, with about 20 minutes shorn from the 143-minute running […]
Douglas Fairbanks Sr stars in one of his most famous and iconic roles as the king’s favoured knight The Earl of Huntingdon, who becomes the outlaw Robin Hood to protect the oppressed English people from the […]
Writer-director Andrew Niccol’s bright 2002 fantasy comedy drama S1m0ne provides an excellent vehicle for Al Pacino as a failing film-maker called Viktor Taransky who constructs a ‘synthespian’. Taransky’s film is endangered when his star walks off, […]
Writer-producer-star Douglas Fairbanks Sr took several of the 1001 Nights tales as his starting point to fashion the story of this classic 1924 silent movie as a showy vehicle for himself. He plays the clever Thief […]
Co-writer and director Jim Sharman and creator Richard O’Brien’s incredibly kitsch and exuberant 1975 musical comedy horror movie parody The Rocky Horror Picture Show stars a super-slinky young Tim Curry, then just 29. Here he […]
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