Director Francesco Rosi’s 1981 Italian/ French film Three Brothers [Tre Fratelli] stars Philippe Noiret, Vittorio Mezzogiorno, Michele Placido, Charles Vanel and Andréa Ferréol. Vanel is remarkable as the elderly father, comforted by his three grown-up […]
Gian Maria Volontè stars brilliantly as Sicilian-American Mafia boss gangster Charles ‘Lucky’ Luciano, in Francesco Rosi’s superb 1973 Technicolor biopic Lucky Luciano. The detailed screenplay covers the mobster’s life from 1946, when the Americans gave […]
Rod Steiger goes to Italy like so many other American actors in search of work and finds a prestige film by top director Francesco Rosi for the award-winning 1963 political and social drama film Hands […]
Director Mick Jackson’s 1997 American disaster film Volcano stars Tommy Lee Jones, Anne Heche, Gaby Hoffmann, Don Cheadle and Keith David, and is inspired by the 1943 formation of the 1,500-foot volcano that emerged between […]
Director Harold French’s 1943 Gainsborough Pictures British black and white comedy drama film Dear Octopus [The Randolph Family] stars Margaret Lockwood and Michael Wilding, along with Celia Johnson, Roland Culver, Athene Seyler, Helen Haye and Frederick Leister. […]
‘Pray you’re not blessed.’ The 1981 horror Deadly Blessing is goremeister director Wes Craven’s outdoors chiller about three women who are seemingly terrorised by a strict religious group led by Isaiah Schmidt (Ernest Borgnine). After […]
‘There’s no one alive who’ll play with the girl next door!’ The 1986 horror Deadly Friend is Wes Craven’s fair sci-fi horror revenge film, in which Matthew Labyorteaux plays Paul Conway, an ultra-clever robotics genius […]
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