French writer-director Claude Lanzmann’s exhaustive 1985 nine-hour, 26-minute documentary on the holocaust, Shoah, is put together by director Lanzmann from more than 350 hours of filmed interviews with survivors, guards and witnesses. Shoah is the Hebrew […]
Brendan Fraser is sweet and fun as the Royal Canadian Mountie who gets his girl, Nell Fenwick (Sarah Jessica Parker), from the clutches of the wicked villain Snidely Whiplash (Alfred Molina) in writer-director Hugh Wilson’s recklessly silly but […]
The amusing double act of Nicolas Cage and Shirley MacLaine give a big lift to co-writer/ director Hugh Wilson’s bumpily constructed 1994 Guarding Tess, which tells the tale of a hapless US secret service agent, […]
‘Tonight, while the world is asleep… an ancient evil is about to awaken.’ Director William Friedkin’s 1990 baby-sitter-from-hell movie The Guardian is a gripping horror film whose quality and entertainment value went scarcely noticed […]
Director Gene Kelly’s 1967 bedroom farce A Guide for the Married Man assembles a whole army of familiar Sixties comedy faces to illustrate the dos and don’ts of marriage, and the pluses and minuses of unfaithfulness. Walter […]
Writer-director Bill Forsyth’s 1984 Comfort and Joy is a sweet enough confection about an Italian ice-cream sellers’ feud in Glasgow, but its wafer-thin comedy offers only some smiles and a few laughs yet little joy. However, […]
Director Henry Koster’s 1949 true story comedy drama Come to the Stable stars Loretta Young and Celeste Holm as French nuns Sister Margaret and Sister Scholastica, who arrive and set out win the hearts and help of […]
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