Producer-director Boaz Yakin’s 2003 Uptown Girls stars Brittany Murphy as socialite Molly Gunn, who falls on hard times and gets a job as nanny to an obnoxious eight-year-old, Ray (Dakota Fanning). Despite lots of dodgy […]
Director Irving Pichel’s 1942 The Pied Piper stars Monty Woolley, who plays Mr John Sidney Howard, a child-hating old Englishman on a fishing holiday in eastern France in World War Two when the Germans attack. It […]
Writer-director Peter Hedges’s 2003 Pieces of April stars Katie Holmes as flaky punk April Burns, whose family is coming to Thanksgiving dinner. But her oven is broken and she cannot cook, so she seeks help […]
Writer-director Michael Powell returns to Foula, one of the Shetland Isles, scene of his 1937 film The Edge of the World, along with its star John Laurie and a few other surviving members of the […]
Writer-director Michael Powell puts heart and soul into The Edge of the World, his deeply felt and involving 1937 black and white film about life on Hirta, a bleak, remote Shetland Island, an Outer Hebridean […]
The team from Uptown Saturday Night does it again in director Sidney Poitier’s 1975 Let’s Do It Again, a ragged but effervescent farce sequel to the 1974 hit, with Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby back in […]
The then highly likeable star pair of Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby hit a profitable vein of Seventies-style broad comedy with the 1974 Uptown Saturday Night, a zany farcical tale of two innocents, Steve Jackson […]
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