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John Heard stars as the Beat Generation pioneer Jack Kerouac (March 12, 1922 – October 21, 1969) in this intriguing, quite fascinating 1980 movie of the love and literary life of the American novelist and poet (On […]
Joan Micklin Silver’s attractively played, perceptively written and hugely entertaining 1977 cult movie Between the Lines focuses on life on a Boston youth-slanted alternative newspaper. Director Joan Micklin Silver’s attractively played, perceptively written and hugely entertaining […]
The talented Alan J Pakula directs and writes this attractive up-market 1989 soap opera. But the warm performances and his intelligent dialogue only partly disguise a smug cuteness lurking in the story. With the chilling […]
A young orphaned African-American family battles to survive in Manhattan. Jazz player Hugh (Hugh Hurd) struggles to make a dollar or two singing in low bars; his sister Leila (Leila Goldoni) joins the phony art […]
Director George Blair’s nasty but intriguing 1960 horror movie is a slice of bizarre cinematic sleaze. Jacques Bergerac plays the popular stage hypnotist The Great Desmond who delights in hypnotising beautiful young women into mutilating […]
Fasten your seat belts for Diana Dors as the irresistibly sexy temptress Calico in the 1958 British crime thriller film Tread Softly Stranger. ‘Some men don’t understand a GOOD-TIME GIRL!’ Director Gordon Parry’s underrated realist 1958 […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s farcical 1965 British comedy is a very jolly romp starring Sidney James and Dick Emery as crooks who leave jail after 15 years only to find that the tree hiding their loot […]