Director Christopher Guest’s winning 1988 comedy The Big Picture stars Kevin Bacon as award-winning film school graduate Nick Chapman, who arrives at the office of horrible movie boss Allen Habel (J T Walsh) desperate to make […]
Zachary Scott stars as Sam Tucker, who battles to save his US Southern cotton farm from man and nature, in the 1945 drama The Southerner, a beautifully heartfelt, lyrical American film from esteemed French director […]
The 1944 romantic musical comedy film Meet the People stars Lucille Ball as a theatre actress who proves she is not a stuck-up star by taking on the war work of staging a musical […]
Director Edward Sedgwick’s 1948 slapstick comedy A Southern Yankee [My Hero] stars Red Skelton as Aubrey Filmore, a silly St Louis bellhop who becomes a silly Yankee spy after being mistaken for The Grey Spider […]
Writer/ producer/ director Robert Youngson’s mostly marvellous 1964 comedy film compilation The Big Parade of Comedy is assembled from footage of the MGM studio’s golden age. The tasty comedy excerpts (mostly slapstick) juxtapose sophisticated Greta […]
There is superb acting in Zhang Yimou’s heart-rending, exquisitely realised 1999 Chinese film The Road Home, a tale of pure and simple love that does not put a foot wrong and will have hardly a […]
Director Robert M Young’s unforgettable 1988 Dominick and Eugene [Nicky and Gino] stars Tom Hulce and Ray Liotta as twin brothers Dominick and Eugene Luciano, one a dustman, brain-damaged in childhood, the other a promising doctor. […]
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