Director Charles Jarrott’s 1977 romantic thriller drama The Other Side of Midnight is a long, lavish, entertaining soap-opera wallow, sleekly filmed by director Jarrott about wartime flier Larry (John Beck), who loves and leaves Parisienne […]
Director Freddie Francis’s 1985 British horror movie The Doctor and the Devils is a disappointing sub-Hammer Films-style tale, based on the exploits of the infamous Edinburgh grave-robbers Burke and Hare. It is interesting as an […]
Director Randa Haines’s polished 1992 drama The Doctor stars William Hurt as rich, uncaring, selfish San Francisco surgeon Dr Jack MacKee (favourite phrase ‘get in and get out’), who finds that he too is faced […]
Director Norman Jewison’s 1991 romantic comedy drama Other People’s Money stars Danny DeVito, who enjoys himself as Larry the Liquidator, lover of doughnuts, the violin, his computer and other people’s money. But when Larry tries […]
Director Moshé Mizrahi’s 1977 drama Madame Rosa [La Vie Devant Soi] [The Life Before Us] stars Simone Signoret, who gives a great performance as a Jewish Auschwitz survivor and former prostitute who lives in a […]
Director Paul Brickman’s 1989 Men Don’t Leave stars Jessica Lange as Beth Macauley, who is having a terrible time. First her loving husband dies, then she has to sell her house, she loses her job, […]
Beware comedians with a sentimental bent who don the latex to play old folk! Billy Crystal is at it in his 1992 comedy Mr Saturday Night, as an ancient TV comic called Buddy Young Jr, […]
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