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Director Peter Collinson’s 1968 Up the Junction movie adaptation of Nell Dunn’s famous 1963 book and Ken Loach’s classic BBC TV adaptation of 1965 was popular but did not spark the kind of controversy or […]
Jeremy Irons stars as a Tom Crick, a disillusioned high school history teacher who has been a teacher in an American school for 20 years but is having trouble connecting with his students and his […]
A marvellous cast is assembled for three sincere, affecting and compelling stories of abortion set in different periods – 1952, 1974 (both directed by Nancy Savoca) and 1996 (directed by Cher) – set in the […]
A well-matched Molly Ringwald and Randall Batinkoff star as starry-eyed high-school pupils Darcy (Ringwald) and Stan (Batinkoff), who are in love. But, when school swot Darcy gets unexpectedly pregnant, should the lovebirds pack up their […]
Director Ingmar Bergman’s intriguing, well-detailed early 1949 movie Three Strange Loves [Törst] [Thirst] still has a strong emotional pull but its appeal is mainly for his diehard fans who want to be completist. Eva Henning […]
Mary McCarthy’s Sixties voguish novel about the lives of eight 1933 Vassar-style Ivy-League private girls’ college graduates was one of the popular literary hits of the day and the inevitable 1966 movie version proves an […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s absorbing 1971 British anti-capital punishment film 10 Rillington Place re-creates the infamous real-life Forties John Christie murder case in London. Richard Attenborough’s chilling portrayal of the serial killer John Christie deservedly gathered […]