Director King Vidor’s trashy 1949 film noir romantic drama Beyond the Forest stars a weirdly posturing, unattractive looking, black-wigged Bette Davis, and she is far from her best as Rosa Moline, a 1940s-style American Madame […]
Director Fielder Cook’s 1986 drama Seize the Day stars Robin Williams, who is stupendous as a Tommy Wilhelm, man in the middle of a personal and business crisis as he reaches 40, in this rewarding, […]
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 […]
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