The 1992 Australian heart-warmer Strictly Ballroom started life as a play, but director Baz Luhrmann recreates it cinematically, swirling you along and sending you away dancing. Take a bit of David and Goliath, a bit […]
Director Steven C Miller’s In the Line of Duty [Line of Duty] is a good, solid, entertaining action thriller, propelled with an intriguing, unusual premise, interesting characters, and some witty banter in the dialogue. The […]
The 1964 film Woman of Straw is a Hitchcock-style crime thriller about a wicked nephew (Sean Connery) and a sexy Italian nurse (Gina Lollobrigida) scheming to bump off a rich old tycoon (Ralph Richardson). Director […]
Charles Chaplin wrote, produced and directed the silent 1923 romantic drama A Woman of Paris, a simple story of a country girl called Marie St Clair (Edna Purviance) who believes she has been jilted and […]
Director James Ivory’s 1969 comedy drama The Guru stars Michael York as English pop singer Tom Pickle, who goes to Bombay, India, to learn the sitar (this is the late Sixties) with maestro Ustad Zafar […]
Schoolgirls Val Boyd (Tippy Walker) and Gil Gilbert (Merri Spaeth) find avant-garde pianist Henry Orient (Sellers) committing adultery with Stella Dunnworthy (Paula Prentiss) in public in New York’s Central Park, in director George Roy Hill’s odd […]
Sidney Poitier directs the 1982 Hitchcockian comedy thriller Hanky Panky, with Gene Wilder as an innocent architect, Michael Jordon, chased across country by spies and police. Gilda Radner plays the mystery woman accompanying him and […]
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