Director René Clair’s delightful 1928 black and white silent movie satirical comedy An Italian Straw Hat [Un Chapeau de Paille D’Italie], attacking the pettiness of the bourgeoisie of the 1900s, revolves around an Italian straw […]
Though filmed in Rome, and directed and co-written by Italian filmmaker Luigi Cozzi [aka Lewis Coates], the entertaining space opera film Starcrash (1978) is an American production produced independently by brothers Nat and Patrick Wachsburger. […]
Director Nicholas Meyer’s 1991 Company Business is a disappointing, tedious espionage comedy thriller with Gene Hackman as Rogue CIA agent Sam Boyd, a former CIA Company man called back to bring jailed Soviet spy Pyiotr […]
Director Walter Forde’s cheerful 1943 British black and white wartime comedy It’s That Man Again is the film of the anarchic radio show by Ted Kavanagh, and stars Tommy Handley, Jack Train and Greta Gynt. […]
Director Jeremy Paul Kagan’s 1983 The Sting II is the belated, virtually ignored sequel to the 1973 blockbuster The Sting, a whole decade after the first, with the same writer David S Ward but alas […]
Writer-director Robert Benton’s sophisticated but old-fashioned 1982 Still of the Night, his follow-on from his 1979 big hit Kramer vs Kramer, reunites him with Meryl Streep for a surprisingly run-of-the-mill Hitchcockian suspense thriller. But, though […]
Warner Bros’ inventive and witty 1938 vintage black and white crime comedy film A Slight Case of Murder is great fun, with ideally cast Edward G Robinson on top comic form sending up the usual […]
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