Director Charles S Dutton’s 2004 drama Against the Ropes stars Meg Ryan, who battles to get her career off the ropes as a real-life go-getting promoter, Jackie Kallen, a Jewish woman from Detroit who storms […]
Director Charles Crichton’s 1948 intelligent, if downbeat espionage, sabotage and resistance thriller Against the Wind, set in wartime occupied Belgium, comes from Ealing Studios, is produced by Michael Balcon, and is well acted by the […]
Director Luis Buñuel’s still provocative, vital and amusing 1930 avant-garde Surrealist masterpiece early work L’Age d’Or [The Golden Age] intends to shock and provoke as it sends up the hypocrisies of organised religion and bourgeois society, […]
Anjelica Huston directs herself in her 1999 comedy drama star vehicle Agnes Browne, with a screenplay by Brendan O’Carroll and John Goldsmith, based on the novel by John Goldsmith. Anjelica Huston must have kissed the […]
Director Norman Jewison’s 1985 mystery drama Agnes of God stars Jane Fonda, Anne Bancroft and Meg Tilly. It was nominated for three Oscars: Best Actress (Anne Bancroft), Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Meg Tilly) […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1979 imaginative British biopic Agatha is based on a film story by Kathleen Tynan, and stars Vanessa Redgrave, Dustin Hoffman and Timothy Dalton. It is helpfully advertised as ‘a fictional solution to […]
‘Her Birthright Was Stolen. Her Dignity Taken. Her Rights Denied. Deception Was The Only Option.’ Director Charles Shyer’s 2001 American historical film The Affair of the Necklace is a plush and handsome if dramatically mild period […]
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