Writer/ director Pedro Almodóvar’s reflective semi-autobiographical Pain and Glory [Dolor y Gloria] (2019) is tremendous, as near perfection as any film gets. Almodóvar is on great form in serious mode in one of his best […]
Universal Studios’ enjoyable 1940 black and white Gothic thriller melodrama film The House of the Seven Gables is based on the 1851 novel by Nathaniel Hawthorne, and stars George Sanders, Margaret Lindsay and Vincent Price. […]
Director Jim Abrahams’s 1993 Hot Shots! Part Deux brings back Charlie Sheen as Topper Harley when US president Tug Benson (Lloyd Bridges) sends a commando team into Iraq to rescue the men who went in […]
Director Jim Abrahams’s 1991 Hot Shots! is an often hilarious Airplane!-style parody of Top Gun and all the other aviator movies (plus for good measure and for no particular reason Dances with Wolves, Gone with […]
The 1968 British caper film Hot Millions is a cute, likeable comedy with delightful turns by Peter Ustinov, Maggie Smith, Karl Malden, Bob Newhart, Robert Morley and Cesar Romero. Director Eric Till’s 1968 British caper film […]
Director Alexandre Aja’s dark, gory and nasty horror movie Crawl (2019) has not a single laugh until after it is finished at the end credits, but it still manages to be a lot of unpleasant […]
Director Fred F Sears’s neat and nifty little 1954 colour Western film Overland Pacific is busy, stalwart, decently plotted and quite well made, with two good star performances from Jock Mahoney and Peggie Castle. Jock […]
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