‘If this happened to your daughter… would you be to blame?’ Director Muriel Box’s provocative and controversial 1960 British drama Too Young To Love is an intriguing dramatised account of the sad life of a […]
Bullshot: ‘Is this seemly, Mrs Platt-Higgins, playing popular music and your husband only ten years dead?’ Director Dick Clement’s silly 1983 British comedy Bullshot is a strained slapstick spoof of Bulldog Drummond, based on a play […]
Emily Brontë: ‘I spit on love and all its vanity’. Director André Techiné’s 1979 biographical costume drama Les Soeurs Brontë [The Brontë Sisters] stars a most formidable French acting talent line-up in Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle […]
‘PADEREWSKI in his only screen appearance’ When plane-crash survivors gather together in the home of a Swedish noblewoman, the Baroness Lindenborg (Marie Tempest), they are serenaded by famous classical pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (as himself), whose […]
‘HE PUTS A HALFBACK INTO ORBIT! HE’S THE LAFF OF THE PARTY! HE BLOWS UP A STORM!’ Director Robert Stevenson’s 1963 comedy Son of Flubber brings Fred MacMurray is happily back as Professor Ned Brainard […]
Director Andrew Davis’s 1988 film Above the Law [Nico] stars Aikido expert Steven Seagal in his film debut as Nico Toscani, a tough renegade Chicago cop, trained in martial arts and combat in Vietnam, who […]
The 1977 British TV classic Abigail’s Party is a savagely funny BBC comedy drama devised and directed by Mike Leigh. This wicked attack on lower-middle-class manners is particularly memorable for Alison Steadman’s formidable portrayal of […]
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