Tolkien (2019) is a curate’s egg of a biographical drama film, with good scenes mixing uncomfortably with not such good ones. It stays interesting, though never fascinating, and this story of the young life of […]
Michel Constantin stars in director Georges Lautner’s edgy, tough 1972 French police crime thriller Il Etait une Fois un Flic… as a bachelor police commissioner called Campana, who must act like a married man with […]
Husband and wife team (though by the time of this movie they were already divorced) Alain and Nathalie Delon star in director Jacques Deray’s rather disappointing 1971 attempt at a comedy Easy Down There! [Doucement […]
Alain Delon, Mireille Darc, Claude Brasseur and Nicoletta Machiavelli enliven Georges Lautner’s slightly eerie, spooky and unsettling 1974 French adaptation of the Richard Matheson novel Someone Is Bleeding about a strange married couple (Delon, Machiavelli) […]
Writer-director Alain Jessua’s classy, provocative allegorical 1973 French horror suspense thriller Shock Treatment [Traitement de Choc] is realised in assured performances by Alain Delon and Annie Girardot, and intelligent writing and suspenseful direction from Jessua. […]
The 1931 British romantic comedy drama film Sally in Our Alley is the first film of music hall star Gracie Fields, establishing her as a major UK film star. Director Maurice Elvey’s 1931 British romantic […]
Director Monty Banks’s lively 1939 British musical comedy Shipyard Sally stars Gracie Fields as failed music-hall singer Sally Fitzgerald, who takes charge of the saloon her father Major Fitzgerald (Sydney Howard) has bought near the John […]
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