Director Joel Schumacher’s 1993 Falling Down is an extremely worrying thriller using a sensitive issue for entertainment. But Michael Douglas reckons he gives his best-ever performance as the burnt-out All-American everyman, a middle-aged Los Angeles […]
Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s critically praised first feature-length film The Falls (1980), funded by the British Film Institute (BFI), represents case histories of, or interviews with, 92 characters (played by the director’s friends) taken from an imaginary […]
Writer-director Peter Greenaway’s 1993 historical shocker The Baby of Mâcon is a fictional Middle Ages tale about an unexpected baby born to a grotesque woman way beyond child-bearing age is told as a three-act play […]
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 […]
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