German director Wolfgang Petersen went from one sweet homespun fantasy film, The NeverEnding Story, to another with the same virtues – startling production designs and eye-catching makeup (here the aliens are created by Chris Walas). […]
Director Pasquale Festa Campanile’s 1967 Italian comedy The Chastity Belt stars Tony Curtis, Monica Vitti and Hugh Griffith, and is a film with a very broad sense of humour. Curtis stars as black-bearded husband knight […]
Rudyard Kipling’s story about a little boy in 19th-century India is adapted as a vehicle for Shirley Temple in director John Ford’s 1937 adventure Wee Willie Winkie. Kipling wrote about Percival Williams, but Temple plays […]
Writer-director Jonas Cornell’s 1967 romantic comedy drama Hugs and Kisses [Puss Och Kram] is a bright, deliciously offbeat Swedish film centring on an aspiring author John (Håkan Serner) who is thrown out by his girlfriend […]
Will Smith and Martin Lawrence are on lively, fair form as Detective Mike Lowrey and Detective Marcus Burnett in directors Adil El Arbi and Bilall Fallah’s slick, confident but violent, unrealistic and overlong third Bad […]
Tomboy Angel (Kristy McNichol) and rich kid Ferris (Tatum O’Neal) – nicely contrasting 15-year-old girls – compete to be the first teenagers at a summer camp to lose their virginity, in director Ronald F Maxwell’s […]
Director David Butler’s 1935 The Little Colonel stars little Miss Shirley Temple at her best, and includes the famous staircase tap dance sequence between the young heroine and Bill Robinson often seen in clips. As […]
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