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. […]
Director Chen Kaige’s 1986 The Big Parade [Da yue bing] is a Chinese film with a subject that is familiar and easy to relate to – an army drama in which a large group of […]
Director Chen Kaige’s remarkable and challenging 1984 Chinese film Yellow Earth [Huang Tu Di] is based on the novel by Lan Ke about a communist soldier, Quing Gu (Xueqi Wang), who comes to a tiny […]
Director Alan J Pakula’s The Devil’s Own (1997) is a poor and diabolically misguided action crime drama using the IRA, gunmen and terrorism as a subject for thriller entertainment. Brad Pitt makes the mistake of playing deadly […]
Jonathan Pryce gives a career-best performance as the psychiatrist who tries to rehabilitate shell-shocked World War One veterans, including war poet Siegfried Sassoon (James Wilby). Director Gillies MacKinnon’s 1997 British-Canadian co-production Regeneration [Behind the Lines] […]
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