Debut writer-director Boots Riley’s 2018 surreal satirical comedy Sorry to Bother You is a nice try, with ambition and intelligence behind it, but it is mostly strained and unamusing. It is pretty much a one-joke movie, […]
Director Richard Eyre’s 2006 lesbian drama Notes on a Scandal was nominated for four Oscars. The smart screenplay is by Patrick Marber, based on the novel by Zoë Heller. Judi Dench is extremely effective cast against […]
Director Christian Rivers’s 2018 teen fantasy action adventure Mortal Engines is very shakily based on the young adult novel of the same name by Philip Reeves. The story is cheesy and unconvincing on screen, lacking […]
It is easy to see what drew director Yann Demange to the story of the rise and fall of the teenage drug hustler Rick Wershe Jr for his real-life Eighties crime drama movie White Boy Rick. […]
Turn down the rather irritating commentary and turn up the brightness for writer-producer-director Robert Youngson’s 1967 The Further Perils of Laurel and Hardy, tasty chunks of Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy’s silent comedies made at […]
Director King Vidor’s commanding World War One epic 1925 drama The Big Parade, full of startling battle images bringing the conflict to vivid life, is one of the great highspots of silent cinema. The film takes […]
Director Abel Ferrara’s 1987 romantic crime drama China Girl stars Richard Panebianco and Sari Chang as a pizza boy from a Mafia family and a girl from a Chinese street gang, who fall in love, […]
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