Director Blake Edwards’s 1966 comedy What Did You Do in the War, Daddy? Is an amusing, lightly over-played satire about World War Two, as Lieutenant Christian (James Coburn) and Captain Cash (Dick Shawn) lead their […]
Director Luca Bercovici’s 1984 film Ghoulies is a gruesome black comedy horror flick, in which Jonathan Graves (Peter Liapis) moves in with his girlfriend Rebecca (Lisa Pelikan) to an old tumbledown mansion, where he assumes […]
Rogue Trader (1999) stars Ewan McGregor, who finds an excellent role and excels as ambitious real-life investment broker Nick Leeson, who breaks trading rules, covers up losses and eventually bankrupts the famous old British bank, […]
Writer-director Dylan Kidd’s 2002 Canadian drama Roger Dodger stars Campbell Scott, who is first rate as Roger Swanson, a womanising smoothie who is rejected by his boss Joyce (Isabella Rosselini) and takes his teenaged nephew […]
What a silly title! The Americans did not fancy What a Carve Up! and the 1961 horror comedy was released in the US as No Place Like Homicide! London West End farceur Ray Cooney (Run […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1964 compendium black comedy What a Way to Go! stars Shirley MacLaine as a four-time widow. Witty Broadway authors Betty Comden and Adolph Green (Singin’ in the Rain) write the screenplay, based […]
Shirley MacLaine tries her hand at playing seven roles in seven flimsy, sporadically entertaining sketches, tales of adultery, blandly directed by the prestigious Vittorio De Sica. Billed as a witty examination of female behaviour, Woman […]
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