Fasten your seat belts for writer-director Peter Mullan’s excitingly tough and gritty 1998 black-toned comedy drama set in a poor district of Glasgow. There, Mrs Flynn’s four children gather in their late mother’s home on […]
Danish co-writer/director Lars Von Trier’s 1996 movie is maybe still this most important of film-maker’s finest. And it’s Islington-born actress Emily Watson’s too, in her very first film, aged 29. She was Oscar nominated […]
Co-writer/director Philip Haas’s 1995 British drama, written with Belinda Haas, is an intriguing, involving and provocative oddity, based on A S Byatt’s intelligent 1992 novella Morpho Eugenia. Co-writer/director Philip Haas’s 1995 British drama film, written […]
Co-writer/director Peter Jackson’s 1994 thriller stars the 18-year-old Kate Winslet, who gets her first big break and makes her startling and auspicious big-screen debut in this deservedly acclaimed real-life murder drama. It’s also fascinating […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s exciting, high-impact, high-anxiety 1955 suspense thriller focuses on the fallout of a vicious bank heist on a small town community in Arizona. A gang of hoodlums (Stephen McNally, Lee Marvin, J Carrol Naish) decides […]
Director Julien Temple is in his element in this imaginative and worthwhile 2000 British biographical drama as Frank Cottrell Boyce’s intelligent screenplay tells of youthful friendship and betrayal between two world famous poets at the […]
Russell Crowe battles the wicked French enemy as Royal Navy captain Jack Aubrey in co-writer/director Peter Weir’s beautifully crafted, eye-catching, thinking person’s 2003 Napoleonic War epic, based on novels by Patrick O’Brian. The film’s plot […]
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