The 1953 British drama The Heart of the Matter is an interesting film of one of Graham Greene’s best novels. Trevor Howard is effective as the unhappily married British security policeman who has a guilty […]
Director Werner Herzog’s 1976 Heart of Glass [Herz aus Glas] is an odd version of a German folktale, about a Bavarian shepherd who reveals the secrets of glassblowing to a village factory boss whose expert […]
Director Ray Enright’s 1938 screwball romantic comedy Hard to Get stars Dick Powell, who gets one hit song (‘You Must Have Been a Beautiful Baby’) to croon as Bill Davis, an architect working as a […]
Director Michael Lehmann’s 1990 Meet the Applegates is a defiantly peculiar surreal fantasy comedy about a colony of giant bugs from South America masquerading as a typical US family. The dad, Richard P Applegate (Ed […]
Director Dwight H Little’s plodding 1990 violence-by-numbers crime ‘thriller’ Marked for Death [Screwface] stars the era’s hot action man Steven Seagal as Chicago DEA agent John Hatcher, a retired drug-busting operative marked for death by […]
Director Sidney J Furie’s 1976 romantic drama Gable and Lombard is movie tittle-tattle told in flashback about how the two vibrant stars Clark Gable and Carole Lombard met at a Hollywood party, carried on meeting […]
Director Ivan Passer’s sweet, affectionately viewed 1965 Sixties Czech New Wave cinema social comedy Intimate Lighting [Intimní Osvetlení] is about the constant pleasures of friendship, with its wry smiles tinged with sadness. Milos Forman’s ex-writer […]
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