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After the bright young Kids Return (1996), Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) turns in a world-weary old man’s movie in this meditation on lives at the end of their tether. For Hana-Bi, Takeshi Kitano was […]
Thomas Mann stars as eccentric but essentially nice 17-year-old Pittsburgh high schooler Greg, who makes parodies of classic movies with his buddy Earl (R J Cyler) but otherwise has no friends. ‘We make films,’ says Greg. […]
Keep a date with Helen Mirren, Julie Walters, Annette Crosbie, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton and Linda Bassett as the real-life Yorkshire Women’s Institute ladies who — oh so demurely! — go the full monty for […]
In director Jerry Zaks’s superlative 1996 heart-tugger, Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton are at their best as sisters Lee and Bessie who have been estranged since their father Marvin (Hume Cronyn)’s stroke 17 years ago. […]
Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]
‘There’s no such thing as a perfect murder. That’s just a parlour game, trying to dream one up. Of course you could say there are a lot of unsolved murders. That’s different.’ Patricia Highsmith’s brilliant, […]
Vampires again – good! – and from Neil Jordan, the director of Interview with the Vampire – good! – but oh so very serious – bad! Byzantium is lovingly done but it’s not really very […]
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