Co-writer/ director Richard Rush’s 1980 The Stunt Man is a good fun parody on the movies, with terrific stunts, in which Vietnam veteran on the run Cameron (Steve Railsback) accidentally kills sinister film director Eli Cross (Peter […]
Writer-director George Axelrod’s 1968 The Secret Life of an American Wife is a pleasing little satirical comedy-drama, sending up the middle-aged, middle-class American mores of the time. Anne Jackson stars as frustrated housewife Victoria Layton, who […]
Darling Lili or Mata Hari – The Musical! Producer-director Blake Edwards’s 1970 Darling Lili is an appealing and attractive World War One Mata Hari spoof romantic spy drama with songs. It stars Julie Andrews, who gives […]
Director Roger Corman and writer R Wright Campbell rework their story for Corman’s first film as director, the 1955 Western Five Guns West as a 1964 World War Two wartime mission action thriller involving convicts, in […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1940 Spring Parade is a sweet and entertaining featherweight romantic musical, in which Hungarian girl Ilonka Tolnay (Deanna Durbin) grows up to be the baker Latislav Teschek (S Z Sakall)’s helper in the […]
Myrna Loy made just one film with Robert Taylor: MGM’s fly-away bit of fluff, the 1939 comedy film Lucky Night. ‘THEY’RE IN LOVE! YOU’RE IN LUCK! IT’S HAPPY-GO-LUCKY’ Likeable, lightweight MGM stars Myrna Loy and […]
The majestic 1959 The World of Apu (Apur Sansar) is the last part of Indian writer-producer-director Satyajit Ray’s great Apu trilogy and is its crowning glory. Apu (Soumitra Chatterjee) grows to love his arranged-marriage wife […]
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