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French comedy genius Jacques Tati lets his hilariously clumsy Monsieur Hulot loose in a French beachside hotel for his beloved alter ego’s first film appearance, in the 1953 comedy gem Mr Hulot’s Holiday [Les Vacances […]
Jack Clayton’s influential 1959 double Oscar-winning film Room at the Top is a Fifties British classic in its own right and significant as the first of the British New Wave of realistic film dramas. Laurence […]
Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker team up again as Inspector Lee and LAPD detective James Carter for the first sequel to their 1998 blockbuster. This time they get involved in more crime-fighting chaos when they take […]
Sandra Bullock discovers a hi-tech conspiracy in director Irwin Winkler’s half-decent 1995 thriller that stays involving even though it’s saddled with a plot so predictable you just beg for at least one surprise. Bullock plays […]
Ben Stiller does well in a straightish role as 40ish layabout Roger Greenberg, who is making a five-course banquet out of his middle-age crisis, in writer-director Noah Baumbach’s intelligent and entertaining, if rather depressingly sad, bitter-sweet […]
Dirk Bogarde’s tour-de-force as ageing composer Gustav von Aschenbach is the jewel in the crown of Luchino Visconti’s masterly 1971 film Death in Venice. Björn Andrésen attracted worldwide attention as Tadzio. Dirk Bogarde’s extraordinary tour-de-force […]
Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo welcome in a disaster-strewn Griswold-style Christmas with their two kids (Johnny Galecki, Juliette Lewis), in their third Vacation movie. Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo welcome in a disaster-strewn Griswold-style Christmas […]