Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s 1984 black and white road-movie comedy drama Stranger than Paradise is aimless yet charming. It turns a lazily hipster eye on two New York deadbeats Willie and Eddie (played by John Lurie […]
The Aftermath (2019) is slow, dull, yawn-inducing retro cinema, with a plodding, predictable story that has one or two good scenes but barely entertains at all. Where is its relevance? Where is its fascination and […]
Director Walter Hill’s 1988 action thriller Red Heat stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Russian lawman Captain Ivan Danko of the Soviet State Police, who is sent to Chicago to pick up a drug dealer, dangerous Georgian […]
MGM’s curious 1932 drama Strange Interlude stars Norma Shearer and Clark Gable, and is based on a play by Eugene O’Neill, who called it ‘a dreadful hash of attempted condensation and idiotic censorship.’ Director Robert […]
Writer-director Delmer Daves’s 1947 black and white psychological thriller The Red House (also known as No Trespassing) is based on a novel by George Agnew Chamberlain, published in 1943 by Popular Library, and stars Edward G […]
Director Mark Rydell’s once sensational but not overheated 1968 pioneering lesbian drama The Fox is taken from D H Lawrence’s novella about two women (Sandy Dennis as sickly, talky Jill Banford and Anne Heywood as […]
Director Adrian Lyne’s 1980 drama Foxes stars Jodie Foster as Jeanie, a teenager from a broken home who plays mother to three other young girls sharing a Los Angeles flat in the San Fernando Valley. […]
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