‘He was a poor black sharecropper’s son who never dreamed he was adopted. A rags to riches to rags story.’ Director Carl Reiner’s 1979 comedy The Jerk stars Steve Martin in his broad, uneasy first […]
Writer-director Cory Finley’s 2017 directorial debut Thoroughbreds, a twisted dark comedy thriller, is a thoroughly unpleasant piece of work, as are his two main characters, Amanda and Lily, posh, idle rich Connecticut teenagers, who dangerously revive their […]
Director Robert Wise’s 1956 biopic drama is the double-Oscar-winning Fifties fight movie classic that turned the 31-year-old Paul Newman into a star. It is one of the great boxing movies. Audiences certainly liked Newman up […]
Director Roger Michell’s weird, haunting and tantalising 2004 British film Enduring Love is written by screenwriter Joe Penhall, based on the 1997 novel by Ian McEwan. The story concerns the perfect picnic of Joe (Daniel Craig) and […]
Cary Grant stars in the 1951 romantic comedy drama People Will Talk as a crusading doctor (Dr Noah Praetorius) battling a jealous anatomist Professor Elwell (Hume Cronyn) and falling in love with young intern Deborah […]
Bing Crosby stars as Larry Poole, a Thirties modern-day troubadour with ambitions to be a singing gondolier in Venice. But, after a short spell in jail on a trumped-up charge, he fulfills a promise to […]
Director Herbert Ross’s ambitious and intelligent 1981 American musical romantic drama film Pennies from Heaven is adapted for American audiences by Dennis Potter from his classic 1978 BBC TV drama miniseries, changing its setting from London and the Forest of Dean […]
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