Writer-director Ben Hopkins’s 1999 film is a sincere, atmospheric and enjoyable if occasionally slightly plodding Jewish fable of old Silesia. There the lanky simpleton Simon Magus – nicely played by Noah Taylor (the youth from […]
Director Michael Rymer’s richly enjoyable 2002 horror thriller stars Stuart Townsend as the vampire Lestat de Lioncourt, taking over from Tom Cruise in this sequel to Interview with the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles (1994). Lestat arises from […]
Writer-director John Hughes’s fondly remembered 1985 movie is perhaps the key film of the Eighties phenomenon known as the Brat Pack, inspiring the movement and making the director’s reputation. It followed Sixteen Candles (1984), his first […]
Robin Williams stars as horrible children’s TV show host Rainbow Randolph, who is sacked for bribery and corruption and wants revenge on his replacement, a meek folk singer called Sheldon Mopes (Edward Norton) who dresses […]
Fredric March stars as Death who decides to take a holiday in Italy, in the 1934 fantasy film Death Takes a Holiday. Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1934 fantasy film of Maxwell Anderson’s play about the Angel […]
Director Gore Verbinski’s intriguing but all too moderate 2001 thriller stars Brad Pitt as hapless, clumsy small-time crook Jerry Welbach, who is forced by his mob boss to retrieve a priceless pistol called The Mexican back […]
Writer-director Tom DiCillo’s gleefully quirky and playful 1991 debut comedy is now a firm cult favourite. But it took awhile to gain its status after opening in only one cinema in America, before getting good reviews and […]
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