Writer-director Sylvain Chomet’s 2003 French animated gem Les Triplettes de Belleville [The Triplets of Belleville] [Belleville Rendez-vous], told with very little dialogue, is an impressively designed, highly imaginative and vibrant cartoon, packed with attractively eccentric, […]
Director Adam Shankman’s 2003 Bringing Down the House stars Steve Martin, who enjoys his best role and biggest hit in ages as a stuffy tax lawyer, Peter Sanderson, who meets a lot of trouble after […]
Director Henry Levin’s 1952 Belles on Their Toes is the too-sentimental but still amusing and appealing sequel to the sharper 1950 family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. [Spoiler alert] There is no Clifton Webb this […]
Writer-director Bill Douglas’s 1978 black and white British autobiographical drama My Way Home is the third and perhaps most impressive part of The Bill Douglas Trilogy begun with My Childhood (1972) and My Ain Folk […]
In My Ain Folk (1973), part two of writer-director Bill Douglas’s autobiographical British drama The Bill Douglas Trilogy, Jamie (Stephen Archibald), the unwanted Scots boy of My Childhood (1972), who is living with his grandmother […]
The Bill Douglas Trilogy, made on tiny budgets from the British Film Institute, are dour and downbeat, highly personal autobiographical films, but they cast a remarkable spell in terms of mood and emotion that is […]
Director John Landis’s 1988 romantic comedy Coming to America represents a mild return to form for Eddie Murphy, engagingly playing Akeem Joffer, the powerful crown prince of the fictional African nation of Zamunda, who comes […]
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