Sidney Poitier and Bill Cosby team up to play con artists Manny Durrell and Dave Anderson in the meandering and schmaltzy, though endearing 1977 comedy drama A Piece of the Action. The two high-class sneak […]
Director James Goldstone’s 1971 drama Brother John is a pleasant, well-meaning, though peculiar and not too entertaining nor enlightening little fantasy movie, very much of its period. Sidney Poitier stars as Brother John Kane, a […]
Writer-director Lars von Trier’s serial killer black comedy horror movie The House That Jack Built is an astonishing movie, astonishingly vile, sadistic, nasty and unpleasant, and astonishingly clever, brilliant and dazzling. Von Trier shows off the breadth and, […]
Sidney Poitier makes his directorial début with the unusual 1971 Western Buck and the Preacher concentrating on black characters, in which he also stars and teams with Harry Belafonte as escaped slaves going West. They […]
Director Charles Jarrott’s 1971 Mary, Queen of Scots is worth a look for the heavyweight actresses Vanessa Redgrave and Glenda Jackson in their prime, if not quite at their peak, and for the various star […]
Director James Wan’s Aquaman (2018) is enormous fun, an inventive visual banquet, a DC comic come to life on screen. I loved the way it is so surreal and bonkers, and makes absolutely no sense […]
Director Josie Rourke’s modern re-interpretation of the tragic historical story of Mary Queen of Scots is vivid and ambitious. Unfortunately, it is not a happy, feel-good story, and the film is more on the interesting […]
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