‘ Gerald Thomas’s 1972 comedy film Carry On Matron is the 23rd in the series and the fourth Carry On with a hospital background. Most of the regular team is assembled in an amusing episode, […]
Sid James and Hattie Jacques usher in the new Seventies era in director Gerald Thomas’s 1970 Carry On comedy Carry On Loving by playing Sidney Bliss and his longtime girlfriend Sophie Plummett, who run a […]
Gena Rowlands is superb as Gloria Swenson, a middle-aged Bronx blonde who sets out to protect a young Puerto Rican boy (John Adames) by trying to beat the Mob at their own nasty game, in […]
Elizabeth Olsen stars in this intense, well-acted film of Emile Zola’s 1867 tragic romance as the sexually repressed beautiful young tragic heroine Therese Raquin. Jessica Lange co-stars as her domineering aunt Madame Raquin, who traps into a loveless […]
Viggo Mortensen and Oscar Isaac are riveting in writer-director Hossein Amini’s tense, twisty and sleek adaptation of the 1964 Patricia Highsmith novel, filmed in the polished vintage-style Hitchcock mode. As usual, Viggo is particularly excellent as the […]
Frankie Howerd’s hilarious and smutty TV sitcom series of Pompeiian scandals is opened out for director Bob Kellett’s jolly 1971 big-screen version Up Pompeii featuring an excellent entirely new support cast. A funny thing happened […]
Director Ronald Neame’s famous 1972 definitive disaster movie launched the Seventies vogue for the genre and still provides a good measure of entertainment. It’s cast strongly with an all-star cast who include five Oscar winners: […]
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