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Director Lawrence Kasdan’s intriguing, semi-successful 1990 crime black comedy has a good start in that it boasts a fine ensemble of actors to make it work – Kevin Kline, Tracey Ullman, Joan Plowright, River Phoenix, […]
The 76-year Italian director Marco Bellocchio marches triumphantly on with this haunting reflection on childhood and the Mother, Mama. As we know, Italian men believe that all women are whores, except their own mother, who is a saint. […]
The 1967 British thriller drama film Our Mother’s House about seven children who hide the death of their deeply religious mother by burying her body in the garden of their dilapidated suburban Victorian home is […]
The awkward but ambitious 1972 comedy-drama film Up the Sandbox stars Barbra Streisand as a pregnant New Yorker, who feels bored with her life and neglected by her husband (David Selby), and takes to fantasising, […]
Writer-director Ingmar Bergman’s provocative 1963 Swedish classic challenged the censor at the time for being sexually explicit. In the UK, the chief censor was in holiday when the film was approved. The controversy over the film resulted […]
Romcom superstars Jennifer Aniston, Kate Hudson and Julia Roberts do their best to spark up – and warm up – a tepid, underwhelming multi-drama set in the week leading up to Mother’s Day. Director Garry Marshall’s third all-star […]
Young Patty Duke won the Golden Globe 1970 as Best Actress – Comedy or Musical for her performance in this independent film, though unfortunately it was a box-office flop. It was her second Golden Globe Award after winning Most Promising […]