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 […]
Long-time Clapham South resident Susannah York plays the forlorn love interest Terry Steyner, who ends up two-in-a-bath with her co-star Roger Moore, in director Peter R Hunt’s 1974 South African-filmed adventure thriller hokum Gold. Wilbur […]
Director Peter R Hunt’s 1976 British war adventure film Shout at the Devil is a robust and welcome if undistinguished old-style action adventure thriller, with Lee Marvin as boozy American entrepreneur Colonel Flynn O’Flynn and […]
Filmed in autumnal hues, with unsettling camera shots and jump cuts to disturbing images, Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski’s thought-provoking 1988 crime drama A Short Film About Killing [Krótki film o zabijaniu] is the deeply troubling […]
Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941–1996) expanded the 61-minute sixth part of his Ten Commandments TV series into an 87-minute cinema feature as A Short Film About Love [Krótki film o milosci]. It is the most romantic […]
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