Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s 1993 comedy drama The Wedding Banquet [Xi yan] is a funny, touching, carefully observed little film with strong performances. Ang based the first half of his movie on the true story […]
Co-writer/ director Ang Lee’s scrumptiously tasty 1994 foodie comedy film Eat Drink Man Woman [Yin shi nan nu] is set in his native Taiwan and was his calling card to world movie-making. Shihung Lung stars […]
Director Maria Ripoli’s 2001 romantic comedy drama Tortilla Soup stars Hector Elizondo, who is first rate as retired master chef Martin Naranjo, a cooking-buff Mexican-American widower, living with his three daughters Leticia, Carmen and Maribel […]
Director Victor Fleming’s 1942 MGM black and white drama Tortilla Flat is a well-acted and appealing version of John Steinbeck’s novel of life among the Mexican-American peasants of Monterey in California. There is plenty of […]
Ryan O’Neal does well as a blacking-out alcoholic writer, who may have killed during a drunken bender, in Norman Mailer’s intriguing 1987 movie Tough Guys Don’t Dance. Wings Hauser scores as the psychotic new Provincetown […]
Septuagenarian buddies Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas unite for the seventh (and last) time for director Jeff Kanew’s 1986 film Tough Guys, an amiable, entertaining caper about elderly train robbers Harry Doyle (Lancaster) and Archie […]
‘Meet the man with the hilarious plan to hoax the whole world out of a cool million… and coax a one-in-a-million girl into his arms!’ Director Guy Hamilton’s 1960 A Touch of Larceny stars James […]
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