The hysterical bug-eyed comedian Marty Feldman co-writes (with Chris J Allen) and directs the 1977 foreign legion spoof comedy The Last Remake of Beau Geste, a daft but fairly enjoyable parody retelling of the classic […]
The second installment of J K Rowling’s Fantastic Beasts series set in the Wizarding World again stars Eddie Redmayne as Newt Scamander. Redmayne’s shambling, mumbling performance is dull, but not as dull as the movie, which […]
Director Gregory Plotkin’s Halloween-style slasher movie Hell Fest finds a generic masked serial killer terrorising a group of fairly dim friends at a horror-themed amusement park for no particular reason. Alas the screenplay by Seth M Sherwood, Blair […]
Director Matthew Ross’s romantic crime thriller Siberia (2018) is nice and tough and dark, and overall pretty good. Though it has many rough edges, it easy to go along with it for the unusual ride. […]
Frank Perry’s 1972 interesting and sincere but depressing drama film Play It As It Lays is based on Joan Didion’s novel, and stars Anthony Perkins, Tuesday Weld and Tammy Grimes. Director Frank Perry’s 1972 interesting […]
Writer-director Ron Shelton’s 1999 boxing movie Play It to the Bone is a quite hard-hitting drama about best friends Cesar Dominguez (Antonio Banderas) and Vince Boudreau (Woody Harrelson), washed-up middleweight boxers who dream of one […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1967 British action adventure film The Long Duel stars Trevor Howard, Yul Brynner, Harry Andrews, Charlotte Rampling, and Andrew Keir, and tells of a ‘conflict of ideals and arms’ that is ‘fought […]
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