Famed, all-time-great American author F Scott Fitzgerald’s last, struggling drink-sodden years as a 1930s pre-World War Two Hollywood scriptwriter, and his torrid affair with witty young English columnist Sheilah Graham while his wife Zelda is in an […]
After their 1971 big hit Klute, Jane Fonda and Donald Sutherland were right to team up again for director Alan Myerson’s 1973 Steelyard Blues. It is a much less compelling but still quite endearing oddity about […]
Director Michael O’Herlihy’s 1966 The Fighting Prince of Donegal stars Peter McEnery as the peace-loving but brash young rebel Irishman Hugh O’Donnell, who inherits the title of Prince of Donegal. He is kidnapped and jailed by […]
Director Hal Needham’s 1980 action comedy sequel Smokey and the Bandit II (aka Smokey and the Bandit Ride Again) brings Burt Reynolds back from the 1977 hit original Smokey and the Bandit as truck driver […]
Director Roger Vadim’s teasingly steamy 1966 The Game Is Over [La curée] stars Jane Fonda in her glorious prime as Renée Saccard, the selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman Alexandre (Michel Piccoli), who falls […]
Co-writer/ director Carlos Marques-Marcet’s quirky comedy of personal relationships Anchor and Hope (2017) is really quite special. It is richly enjoyable, very funny, touching and thoughtful, with four lovely performances in memorable characters, as well as […]
Director Peter Tewkesbury’s likeable 1963 romantic comedy boasts a good cast in Cliff Robertson, Rod Taylor, Jane Fonda, Robert Culp, Jo Morrow and Jim Backus, and a decent screenplay by Norman Krasna, who adapts his […]
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