Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]
Director Donald Petrie’s 1993 romantic comedy is neither sharp nor witty, yet it’s appealing and often funny. It was exceedingly popular and spawned a sequel, Grumpier Old Men, in 1995. In older age, Jack Lemmon […]
Writer-director James Gray’s 1994 dysfunctional family drama is dark toned, chilly and depressing but highly impressive, both emotionally and visually. It is spurred along with a superb Tim Roth performance as Joshua, a cold-blooded Russian […]
Director Charles Matthau’s 1995 film is a civilised treat. The 18-year-old Edward Furlong stars as an orphan boy who, back in the 1930s, goes to live with his two dotty aunts (Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek) […]
Hugh Hudson makes a lovely job of directing the exhilarating 1984 film Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes. It is exciting that Christopher Lambert is an Ape Man hero obviously with a […]
Frank Launder and Sidney Gilliat’s 1955 British film Geordie [Wee Geordie] stars Bill Travers as a Scotsman who becomes an athlete and competes at the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne. Co-writer/co-producer/director Frank Launder’s 1955 charmer of a film Geordie […]
Todd Field’s scalding 2001 drama film In the Bedroom focuses on the lives of a family in a quiet New England town. Tom Wilkinson and Sissy Spacek are astonishing as the bereaved parents. Co-writer/director Todd […]
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