Writer-directors Joel Coen and Ethan Coen’s lovingly respectful homage movie The Ballad of Buster Scruggs (2018) is first of all a haunting work of art, and second a beautiful toast to the Western movie and […]
Writer-director Ben Wheatley’s semi-improvised ensemble comedy drama Happy New Year, Colin Burstead (2018) is dark and sour, with a bunch of really horrible loser characters, but it is undeniably funny in places in its black comedy […]
Robin Williams, Peter O’Toole, Rick Moranis, Jimmy Cliff, Twiggy and Adolph Caesar are in the tasty star line-up for director Harold Ramis’s 1986 comedy Club Paradise about a Chicago firefighter called Jack Monike (Williams) who […]
Director Walter Lang’s 1951 Technicolor musical comedy On the Riviera is a fine and dandy vehicle for Danny Kaye, who has fun in two parts as Jack Martin, an American song and dance man adept at […]
Keira Knightley stars in director Wash Westmoreland’s Colette (2018) as French rural country girl Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette, who marries the older Willy (Dominic West). They move from the countryside to Paris and he gets her to […]
Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]
Lawrence Kasdan, fresh from Body Heat and The Big Chill, co-writes, produces and directs the 1985 Silverado, a visually resplendent movie telling a well-plotted Western tale about four drifters – Kevin Kline as Paden, Scott […]
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