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Jacqueline Bisset heads writer-director Paul Bartel’s 1989 sex comedy Scenes from the Class Struggle in Beverly Hills as Clare Lipkin, a soap star trying to make a comeback after the death of her husband. Meanwhile, […]
Director John Paddy Carstairs’s agreeable, if underpowered 1955 British black and white comedy Jumping for Joy rests solidly on the charms of its young star Frankie Howerd. If you enjoy Frankie’s unique brand of naughty […]
James Cagney gives a powerful, yet well-controlled performance as a newsman called Lew Marsh fighting alcoholism, in director Gordon Douglas’s involving 1951 study of the evils of drink, Come Fill the Cup, based on a […]
Director Lawrence Kasdan’s sweet and moving 1988 film The Accidental Tourist stars William Hurt as successful Baltimore travel guide writer Macon Leary, alone, withdrawn and unhappy after his son is accidentally killed in a robbery […]
Director Basil Dearden’s 1943 The Bells Go Down has its appeal but it suffers by comparison with the same year’s Fires Were Started. You didn’t expect to see Tommy Trinder and James Mason in the […]
‘It could have been worse. I’ve actually been lucky. If you compare… My Life as a Dog’ Set in the Fifties, director Lasse Hallström’s magical bitter-sweet 1985 film My Life as a Dog [Mitt liv […]
Master French film-maker Jean Renoir’s 1941 American début Swamp Water [The Man Who Came Back], made while he was in wartime exile from German-occupied France, is an unusual, dramatic thriller, set in Georgia swamps, where […]