Sydney Pollack’s simmering 1993 legal thriller film The Firm stars Tom Cruise as a promising young attorney seduced into joining a sinister Memphis family lawyer firm and Gene Hackman as his world-weary mentor. Director Sydney […]
The opening credits of this fanciful 1952 Samuel Goldwyn-produced vehicle for Danny Kaye say it all: ‘Once upon a time there lived in Denmark a great storyteller named Hans Christian Andersen. This is not the story […]
Jesse Bradford is super as young Angus McCormick (aged 14), who finds himself washed ashore in the wilderness of the Pacific Northwest after a storm capsizes his boat at sea and separates him from his […]
You don’t expect to see Oscar-winner Frances McDormand playing a free-spirited record producer prone to wild parties and taking dope, with her tongue down the throat of the fiancée (Kate Beckinsale) of her estranged son Sam (Christian […]
Writer-director Todd Haynes’s 2002 masterwork drama profitably reunites him with the star of his 1995 movie Safe, Julianne Moore. She plays Cathy, a Fifties New England housewife who finds that her perfect husband Frank (Dennis […]
Director Norman René’s heart-rending 1990 drama is a trailblazer as the first mainstream feature to tell the story of how the AIDS epidemic affected America’s gay community in the 80s. It centres on a small circle […]
Writer-director Todd Haynes’s smart and highly intriguing 1995 drama stars Julianne Moore, who gives a superb portrayal of a woman in ultimate peril as an allergy victim to the everyday pollution in her own surroundings. […]
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