The 1963 British kitchen sink comedy Sparrows Can’t Sing stars James Booth, Barbara Windsor, Roy Kinnear, Avis Bunnage, Barbara Ferris, and Brian Murphy, and is the only film directed by Joan Littlewood, bringing her stage hit to the […]
Director Asif Kapadia’s hugely enjoyable and informative sport documentary Diego Maradona (2019) gets on the case of an excellent story, and tells it exceptionally well. It is quite a rollercoaster ride, gripping throughout its 130 […]
‘His wife just left him for another man. And so did his boyfriend.’ Alan Bates gives a dazzling performance in director Harold Pinter’s brilliant 1973 drama film Butley, based on Simon Gray’s masterwork play. ‘His […]
Director F Gary Gray’s Men in Black: International (2019) is a weak and witless reboot, dumping the original cast, in which an American woman (Tessa Thompson) somehow pushes her way into the Men in Black […]
Director Steve Carver’s 1976 movie Drum is an embarrassing, lurid, stop-at-nothing sequel to the 1975 Mandingo, based on the follow-up novel by Kyle Onstott, about the misadventures of an 1860 New Orleans whorehouse slave called […]
Director Jimmy T Murakami’s 1980 movie Battle Beyond the Stars is a cheeky and entertaining slice of sci-fi from executive producer Roger Corman and New World Pictures, cheerfully mixing The Magnificent Seven with Star Wars. […]
Director Aaron Lipstadt’s 1982 Android is a sprightly, enjoyable low-budget Roger Corman-produced reworking of themes and ideas that also appear in Blade Runner and numerous other sci-fi films of the late Seventies and early Eighties, […]
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