Director Vittorio De Sica’s 1946 Shoeshine [Sciuscià] is an exquisitely made, deeply moving early Italian neo-realist world cinema classic set in post-World War Two, post-Facsist Rome. There two deprived, hungry and homeless shoeshine boys (Franco […]
Director Nick [Nicholas] Grinde’s 1932 drama Shopworn is a typical early Thirties pre-Code Barbara Stanwyck vehicle, both fiery and lusty, in which she plays Kitty Lane, a young, poor, struggling waitress driven to a Reformatory […]
Writer-director James L Brooks’s 1994 romantic comedy drama I’ll Do Anything went awry and was a troubled production. It was made as a musical until test audiences rejected it, and the last-minute cutting has damaged […]
Writer-director James L Brooks’ enjoyable and edgy 2004 rom-com drama Spanglish manages rare bite, truth and humour – and is just that little bit different. Adam Sandler makes a very good job indeed of a […]
Writer-director James L Brooks’s smooth and amusing 1987 TV news comedy Broadcast News is easy-going but still with a sharp, intelligent edge. It purrs along smoothly thanks to the three attractive stars – William Hurt […]
The 30-year-old writer-director Brady Corbet’s second film Vox Lux (2018) is his edgy, ambitious, confident and stylish follow-up to his The Childhood of a Leader (2015). It is equally provocative and dynamic, as well as […]
Co-writer/ director Benedikt Erlingsson’s Woman at War, Iceland’s submission to the 91st Academy Awards (2018), cheered me up enormously. It is an expertly aimed feel-good movie, delightfully quirky and funny, definitely about something, many things […]
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