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 […]
Director Stephen Verona’s 1979 drama Boardwalk stars Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg as a beleaguered old Jewish couple, Becky Rosen and her husband David, who fight back when they are under attack from Strut (Kim Delgado)’s […]
BMX Bandits takes us back to the early Eighties BMX bike craze and a time when Nicole Kidman was a teenager. Where there’s a craze, there’s a movie and here is a bright but daft […]
Director Claude Chabrol enjoys himself on his own ground with this taut 1978 psychological thriller Violette Nozière [Violette], based on the true story of the 18-year-old Parisian, Violette Nozière (Isabelle Huppert), who poisoned her parents […]
The final curtain on Laurence Olivier’s film career was as Rudolf Hess in director Peter R Hunt’s below-par 1985 action movie Wild Geese II, in which Scott Glenn stars as adventurer John Haddad, who is […]
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