Anthony Minghella, the director of The Talented Mr Ripley, Truly Madly Deeply and The English Patient, keeps his discreet, delicate, genteel film-making style intact in a move to the more rough and ready world of […]
‘Jerry’s in London – trying to make an easy million the hard way!’ Director Jerry Paris’s 1968 British comedy Don’t Raise the Bridge, Lower the River has a clumsy title for a clumsy film. Jerry […]
Sebastián Lelio remakes his own 2013 masterwork Gloria (2018) as Gloria Bell, just like Michael Haneke made his 1997 Funny Games as the 2007 English-language remake Funny Games. Gloria Bell offers a grand opportunity for […]
London-born producer/ writer Simon Kinberg has been with X-Men for a long time as writer of X-Men: The Last Stand (written by), X-Men: Days of Future Past (screenplay and story by), X-Men: Apocalypse (screenplay and […]
‘There has been a serious misunderstanding in the Hardy family.’ Stan Laurel masquerades as Mrs Hardy to please Oliver Hardy’s rich uncle (William Courtwright) in director Lloyd French’s very inventive and funny 1929 two reeler […]
‘Mr Hardy fell on his leg and was laid up for two months. Mr Laurel fell on his head and hadn’t felt better in years.’ Director James Parrott’s 1932 Hal Roach Studios black and white […]
Director Samuel Gallu’s 1966 British horror movie Theatre of Death [Blood Fiend] stars Christopher Lee as Philippe Darvas, a supercilious director of Grand Guignol horror plays at The Theatre of Death in Paris, and he […]
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