Gena Rowlands is splendid as an ageing actress devastated when her biggest fan dies in an accident on her opening night, in John Cassavetes’s appealing 1977 drama film Opening Night. A long (it runs 144 […]
Director Peter Collinson’s violent, nasty and distasteful 1974 action thriller drama Open Season [Los Cazadores] is based on the novel The All Americans by David D Osborn, and stars Peter Fonda, John Philip Law, Richard Lynch, […]
Director David Paltenghi’s 1954 comedy Orders Are Orders is an engagingly cast (and grammatically correct) though iffily handled retread of Walter Forde’s vintage Orders Is Orders (1933), with a British army base driven to distraction […]
Director Roberto Faenza’s fascinating 1983 Italian crime thriller Order of Death [Cop Killer] [l’assassino dei poliziotti] [Corrupt] is a tautly made and intriguingly written thriller based on Hugh Fleetwood’s 1977 psychological novel The Order of […]
The Phantom of Liberty [Le fantôme de la liberté] (1974) is the penultimate film of Luis Buñuel (1900–1983), sandwiched between his great classics The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and That Obscure Object of […]
Co-writer/ director Luis Buñuel brings the full force of his wit and irony to bear on his attack against Catholicism in his 1969 comedy drama The Milky Way [La Voie Lactée], which focuses on the […]
Last Christmas is a would-be heart-warmer that puts you in a bad mood – that’s a rare trick! It starts promisingly enough, but after seven or eight minutes, it stalls, and the jokes just sit […]
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