Robin Williams makes his star movie début in director Robert Altman’s ludicrously underrated, under-patronised and undervalued 1980 live-action version of the E C Segar cartoon. Williams and Shelley Duvall are just perfect as the spinach-eating […]
Welcome to Holly Springs, Mississippi… home of murder, mayhem and catfish enchiladas. Director Robert Altman is in surprisingly blunt, indulgent and benign mood produces a slack, hollow-centred 1999 comedy thriller film that’s fairly amusing, enjoyable […]
Scream’s Neve Campbell (who also co-wrote the original story and co-produced) proves a surprise super dancer in director Robert Altman’s 2003 gossipy account of the day-to-day life of a fictional ballet company (played by members […]
Written, directed by and starring Billy Crystal, this 1995 romantic comedy sees him as Mickey Gordon, a basketball referee who meets a French-speaking American (Debra Winger) in Paris, where he has arrived to bury his […]
This warm-hearted but surprisingly tepid, oversweet comedy with Billy Crystal and NBA basketball star Gheorghe Muresan as his giant can boast only sporadic moments of fun. For this, blame a feeble, low-laugh, sentimentally inclined screenplay by David […]
Hooray for one of James Cagney’s most iconic and brilliant performances as Tom Powers, a fiery, hot-tempered lad from the Chicago slums who grows up to be a young hoodlum and rises high up through the […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s triumphant triple-Oscar-winning 1942 dramatic musical showbiz biopic of the life of renowned American musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singing star George M Cohan is gloriously rumbustious and effervescent. Packed with toe-tapping […]
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