Lust, murder, food, sex, torture, revenge and cannibalism are on the menu at Le Hollandais Restaurant, for Peter Greenaway’s 1989 film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover. Michael Gambon plays a psychotic […]
The 1954 British black and white film Five Days [Paid to Kill] is a moody, decently plotted crime thriller, with a goodish cast to make it work: Dane Clark, Cecile Chevreau, Paul Carpenter and Anthony […]
Producer-director Fred Zinnemann’s 1982 drama of incestuous love Five Days One Summer is a gorgeous looking 1930s-set Alps soap opera in which ageing, respectable married Dr Douglas Meredith (Sean Connery) and a young lady whom […]
The 1978 drama Paradise Alley in a naïve but agreeable yarn, written and directed by Sylvester Stallone with energy in his feature film directorial debut, about three Italian-American brothers in the 1940s who try to […]
Director Norman Jewison’s 1978 film F.I.S.T. is based on a story by Joe Eszterhas, and stars Sylvester Stallone, Rod Steiger, Peter Boyle, Melinda Dillon, David Huffman, Tony Lo Bianco and Kevin Conway. With the help […]
Security Sergeant: ‘It’s official – it’s a fuck-up.’ Director Richard Loncraine’s 1987 British crime thriller Bellman and True showcases a smashing performance by a totally credible Bernard Hill as Hiller, a computer-alarms system expert burglar […]
A fictional Chicago architect called Stourley Kracklite (Brian Dennehy), working on a project in Rome, Italy, an exhibition in tribute to visionary real-life French neoclassical architect Etienne-Louis Boullée (1728-99), discovers that everything is crumbling around him. Stourley […]
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