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 […]
The MGM studio advertised it as ‘There are no rules… there is no limit… IN THE LOVE-HUNGRY WORLD OF THESE YOUNG SOPHISTICATES!’ Money, partner swapping, drugs and restless youth: MGM thought that director Michael Anderson’s […]
Director Tony Chan’s nail-biting survival action drama The Bravest [Lie huo ying xiong] (2019) is viscerally intense and successful both as a disaster movie and a tribute to China’s fire-fighters. It is staged on an awesomely […]
Writer-producer-director Paul Mazursky’s 1978 romantic comedy drama An Unmarried Woman is an insightful tale of troubled New Yorkers, as married woman Erica (Jill Clayburgh) and her teenage daughter are suddenly abandoned by rich, successful husband […]
The 1973 movie Blume in Love is a thoroughly enjoyable romantic comedy drama with a few home truths from writer-producer-director Paul Mazursky. George Segal is on his liveliest form as Stephen Blume, a divorced divorce […]
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