The 1989 British romantic drama The Rachel Papers with Dexter Fletcher and Ione Skye is a reasonably attractive film version of Martin Amis’s funny, bawdy 1973 first novel. Writer-director Damian Harris’s 1989 British romantic drama […]
The 1948 Western film Rachel and the Stranger stars Robert Mitchum as Indian scout Jim, who visits a backwoods cabin in the 1820s and falls for purchased bride Rachel (Loretta Young), whose jealous husband Big […]
Director Compton Bennett’s mostly creaky and feeble 1953 British black and white crime melodrama Desperate Moment largely wastes the bright talents of the young and beautiful Mai Zetterling and Dirk Bogarde. In Berlin after World […]
Jean-Luc Godard’s jokey, peculiar 1985 French thriller Détective about four groups of people meeting in a Paris grand hotel, where a murder was committed two years before, is, as expected, provocative, progressive and experimental. Godard […]
Director Jack Hazan’s 1974 A Bigger Splash is a fascinating and insightful, though chaotically assembled semi-fictionalized documentary drama biopic on the life of the British painter David Hockney and the story behind one of his […]
Lucille Ball considered the 1942 American RKO Radio Pictures drama film The Big Street her favourite. Director Irving Reis’s 1942 American RKO Radio Pictures drama film The Big Street stars Henry Fonda, Lucille Ball, Barton […]
Goodness, gracious! It’s Dennis Quaid giving an amusing caricature of a performance as legendary Fifties rocker Jerry Lee Lewis, in the 1989 stylised comic-book biopic Great Balls of Fire!, which reunites Dennis Quaid with Jim […]
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