Director James Signorelli’s 1983 comedy Easy Money stars Rodney Dangerfield as Monty Capuletti, a grotesquely self-indulgent child portraitist who is left a huge inheritance by his immensely rich mother-in-law Mrs Monahan (Geraldine Fitzgerald) if he […]
Director John Ford’s 1930 comedy crime drama Up the River is an amusing junior-league Ford prison comedy, with the main interest less in the original story by Maurine Dallas Watkins and the script than in the teaming of […]
Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1952 The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] is a world cinema classic, with a remarkable performance by Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a 17th-century samurai’s daughter who leads a life of […]
Director Alex Cox’s 1987 political adventure Walker is about a real-life 1850s American mercenary leader called William Walker (Ed Harris) who is funded to invade Nicaragua, join up with the liberal forces and defeat the corrupt […]
Director Francis D Lyon’s sturdy 1957 American Western film for Allied Artists, The Oklahoman, stars Joel McCrea, Barbara Hale and Brad Dexter. It is attractively shot in CinemaScope and DeLuxe colour by Carl E Guthrie. […]
I’m going to make this a personal reaction as I think the 2019 chiller Glass is a Marmite movie. You like it or you don’t. That’s it. Either reaction is valid and reasonable. I really […]
Director Byron Haskin’s 1956 Technicolor and Cinemascope Western film The First Texan stars Joel McCrea, who gives a resolute performance, ageing effectively from callow youth to canny Texas president, in this entertaining biopic of East […]
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