Andranic Manet plays Etienne, a sullen, only semi-appealing French provincial boy from Lyon, who selfishly leaves his nice girlfriend Lucie (Diane Rouxel) and loving parents behind to start a new exciting life in Paris to […]
Writer-director Sam Levinson’s full-on, full-throttle Assassination Nation (2018) is hard to like and hard to sit through, but it is done with great enthusiasm and skill, and huge self-belief – and very considerable show-off style. It […]
The tragic tale of Lizzie Borden offers a grand role for Chloë Sevigny, which she takes on eagerly in director Craig William Macneill’s psychological thriller Lizzie, based on the shocking, infamous 1892 murders. It is […]
Director George Marshall’s 1958 Western The Sheepman, based on a story by James Edward Grant, William Roberts, is well done all round. Glenn Ford stars as Jason Sweet, a stranger who comes to town to […]
Director Henri Verneuil’s 1954 French charmer The Sheep Has Five Legs [Le Mouton a Cinq Pattes] boasts an Oscar-nominated story and a brio multi-performance in six roles by the great Fernandel. In the story, a […]
Director John Guillermin’s 1984 lady in a loincloth comic book adventure Sheena suffers from an achingly poor screenplay by David Newman and Lorenzo Semple Jr, and it is deadly dull because no one seems to […]
Director Burt Kennedy’s 1965 The Rounders is an appealingly relaxed, humorous-toned Western with Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda both on excellent form as Ben and Howdy, a fairly dim-seeming pair of aging present-day bronco busters who […]
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