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 […]
Writer-director Tom DiCillo’s bright 1997 showbiz comedy stars a well-paired and charismatic Matthew Modine and Catherine Keener. They are very appealing as a struggling actor and his makeup artist girlfriend in this thoroughly likeable, funny and […]
Writer-director Tom DiCillo in 1995 parodies the making of his Brad Pitt film Johnny Suede (1991), in another offbeat, comic and charming style exercise, with an astringent insider’s view of low-budget film-making. Steve Buscemi is […]
Director Edward Zwick’s 1996 war movie stars Meg Ryan who is working outside her usual romcom comfort zone and isn’t really credible as an action woman. This flashback-told Gulf War drama is seen through the […]
Director Frank Oz’s good-natured and enterprising but shaky 1997 comedy stars Kevin Kline as a small-town American teacher who’s about to be married to his childhood sweetheart (Joan Cusack) when he is outed as gay […]
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