Regina Hall is great as Lisa, the general manager at a Hooters-style fast food joint called Double Whammies, owned by sleazy Cubby (James Le Gros). Lisa is really brilliant at her job, which she loves. She […]
Co-writer/director Zhang Yimou bounces back from his 2016 The Great Wall with Shadow [Ying], a spectacular-looking period action drama set in China’s Three Kingdom’s era of AD 220-280, that starts with a lot of talk, characterisation and plotting, running […]
Director/ co-writer Darya Zhuk’s Crystal Swan [Khrustal] is an amusing and engaging Russian comedy set in Nineties Belarus, where young DJ Velya (Alina Nasibullina) is forced by a phone number typo in her forged US […]
Actor Paul Dano’s directorial debut is Wildlife (2018), in which a misfit teenage boy called Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould) witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his frustrated father Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses his job as a golf […]
Director Lance Daly’s 2018 period action drama Black ’47 is a heart-pounding tale of brutal revenge set in Ireland amid the repression and starvation horrors of the great Irish famine of 1847. Sometimes, it is […]
Writer/ producer/ director Cornel Wilde came to Britain to direct the 1970 eco-warrior movie No Blade of Grass, a green-friendly, concerned and often involving sci-fi action thriller, which stars his wife Jean Wallace, along with […]
Richard Roundtree recreates the role of hardboiled Harlem private eye John Shaft in director Gordon Parks’ s 1972 blaxploitation action crime thriller Shaft’s Big Score!, the tip-top first sequel to the enormously successful 1971 original […]
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