Director Beeban Kidron’s 1992 drama Used People offers good opportunities for a lovely bunch of actresses, and is a funny, good-natured, cosily predictable film, with enough edge to see it over the sticky sentiment. Shirley […]
‘Can a girl find happiness with $20,000,000? YOU BET!’ Director Charles Walters’s 1964 Broadway show transfer The Unsinkable Molly Brown boasts Debbie Reynolds full of beans as the real-life mining-camp tomboy Molly Brown, who climbs […]
Director Hugh Brody’s fascinating 1985 British independent film drama Nineteen Nineteen [19/19] is a worthy though wordy look back at the past as, 65 years on, two imagined former patients of Dr Sigmund Freud discuss […]
Italians try to survive as the Americans liberate a small town in Tuscany from the Germans in August 1944, in the moving 1981 Italian wartime drama film The Night of San Lorenzo from Paolo Taviani […]
Director Lloyd Corrigan’s 1937 crime thriller Night Key stars Boris Karloff as the kindly, mild-mannered, half-blind inventor David Mallory, who gets a crook called Petty Louie (Hobart Cavanaugh) to help him get even with the […]
Writers-directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani’s 1990 Italian art cinema drama Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] stars Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski. [Spoiler alert] In 18th-century Italy, young nobleman Baron Sergio […]
The promising 1991 anthology comedy drama Night on Earth offers five taxi-driver stories set in different cities from writer/ producer/ director Jim Jarmusch, but not one of them adds up to a fully satisfying trip. […]
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