Writer-director Alexander Ramati’s 1985 The Assisi Underground is a well-meaning, costly, but largely ineptly told wartime adventure about Catholic monks in Assisi (Perugia, Umbria, Italy) hiding Italian Jewish refugees from the Nazis in 1943 and […]
Director Michael Lindsay-Hogg’s 1984 British television film Dr Fischer of Geneva stars James Mason, Alan Bates and Greta Scacchi. Graham Greene’s lukewarm novella proves ideal material for a TV movie, at least this TV movie, […]
Eric Roberts and Christopher Penn star as Alex Grady and Travis Brickley, who lead the five-strong American karate team chosen by Frank Couzo (James Earl Jones) to fight against Korea in a Tae Kwon Do […]
Director Goffredo Alessandrini’s 1942 Italian romantic war film We the Living [Noi Vivi] stars Alida Valli and Rossano Brazzi and Fosco Giachetti, who give outstanding performances in this tale of the difficult web of relationships […]
Director Spike Lee’s ambitious, lengthy but fast-paced 1992 biopic of the Sixties black activist is given special distinction by Denzel Washington’s Oscar-nominated star tour de force performance, full of power, passion and dignity. Malcolm X […]
Director Sam Wood’s engaging, funny, charming 1941 vintage comedy The Devil and Miss Jones stars Jean Arthur as Miss Mary Jones, Robert Cummings and Charles Coburn, who is good fun as the tycoon John P […]
Producer-director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1961 Eastman Color adventure drama The Devil at 4 O’Clock is based on a novel by Max Catto and stars Spencer Tracy as hard-drinking priest Father Matthew Doonan, who enlists the reluctant […]
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