Alas, all good things have to come to an end. The splendid Joan Hickson takes on her 12th and final case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, in the 1992 TV mystery film The Mirror Crack’d […]
Director Richard Franklin’s 1991 complicated action thriller F/X2: The Deadly Art of Illusion [F/X2] stars Bryan Brown, Brian Dennehy and Rachel Ticotin. In a surprise, belated sequel to 1986’s F/X – Murder by Illusion, Bryan […]
Director Robert Mandel’s bright, pacey 1986 thriller F/X – Murder by Illusion [F/X] has a lot of lively action, and, yes, lots of special effects. Bryan Brown stars as Rollie Tyler, a film special effects […]
Director Michael Apted’s 1983 Gorky Park stars William Hurt, Lee Marvin and Brian Dennehy, who are all excellent in this sombre, well-crafted and at least half-decent thriller, scripted from Martin Cruz Smith’s bestseller by controversial […]
Director John Flynn’s 1987 thriller Best Seller [Hard Cover] stars Brian Dennehy in an unusual cosy performance as Dennis Meechum, a cop-turned-author who survives a violent robbery and remembers the appearance of one of his […]
Columbia Pictures remade 1940’s Too Many Husbands as director H C Potter’s lively and carefree but thin 1955 Technicolor, CinemaScope musical Three for the Show. Betty Grable stars as Julie Lowndes, the showgal who finds […]
Shots are fired in a darkened room in the lively, inventive and unusual 1991 TV movie Miss Marple: They Do It with Mirrors. Joan Hickson takes on her eleventh case as the BBC’s detective Miss […]
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