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Laurence Olivier took the Oscars for both Best Picture and Best Actor for his intelligent, involving and marvellously cinematic 1948 film adaptation of William Shakespeare’s tragic play. And there were Oscars for Art Direction-Set Decoration […]
Spanish enfant terrible cult director Pedro Almodóvar‘s 1980 first feature film, arriving belatedly in Britain in 1992 on the back of his later hits, looks at life in Madrid during the punk era. It centres on […]
Finnish cult writer-director Aki Kaurismäki’s dark 1989 comedy drama stars Kati Outinen as Iiris, the poor Match Factory Girl of the title, wearily looking after her grumpy mother and stepfather. Love and joy come into […]
Budd Boetticher’s 1958 cult classic Western film Buchanan Rides Alone stars Randolph Scott as Texas cowboy drifter Buchanan, who rides alone against a nasty dynasty who run the Tex-Mex border town of Agry. Director Budd […]
Co-writer/director Manny Coto’s deeply unsettling 1992 horror movie stars Larry Drake as the psychopathic Dr Evan Rendell, aka Dr Giggles, the son of a mass-murdering doctor, who escapes from his mental institution and comes to the […]
Co-writer/director Sam Raimi’s 1990 horror comic is a thrilling grand guignol horror movie. Liam Neeson gives an admirably grave performance as Peyton Westlake, a scientist who recreates himself as the shadowy avenger Darkman after he is […]
Robert Downey Jr continues his highly expert and entertaining turn as Tony Stark/ Iron Man in this exciting but nicely relaxed and easy-going sequel to the 2008 original blockbuster. It is reliable stuff that takes […]