Michael Ritchie’s 1980 concert film Divine Madness is a terrific record of the divine Miss Bette Midler’s one-woman show, filmed over three days at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Director Michael Ritchie’s 1980 American music documentary concert […]
The colourful 1979 romantic musical drama film The Rose stars Bette Midler as self-destructive rock star Rose, who takes up with chauffeur-drifter Huston Dyer (Frederic Forrest). Midler won a Golden Globe and both stars were […]
Director Mark Rydell’s 1991 For the Boys is a lavish, old-fashioned musical drama vehicle for Bette Midler as Dixie Leonard, an American showgirl with a heart of gold and a will of iron, who teams […]
American star Denzel Washington comes to the UK to play a working-class soldier from an inner London council estate in Brixton, who, on his return from the Falklands War, finds that nobody wants to give […]
Director Peter Duffell’s riveting 1980 Caught on a Train stars Peggy Ashcroft as Frau Messner, an imperious Austrian lady who terrifies young Briton Peter (Michael Kitchen) on an overnight train passing through Germany, in writer […]
The 1991 film Defending Your Life is an amiable, hit-and-miss romantic fantasy comedy drama from multi-talented writer-director Albert Brooks, in which he also stars. The star’s character Daniel Miller is killed in a car crash […]
Director David Drury’s outstanding political conspiracy thriller Defence of the Realm [Defense of the Realm] furrowed a few brows in London’s Whitehall government district on its release in 1985. Gabriel Byrne stars in his career-making […]
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