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Director Jon Avnet’s very nice and sweet 1991 nostalgic drama Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café [Fried Green Tomatoes] stars Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged glutton housewife who bumps into a jolly old […]
Leonard Kastle’s chilling 1970 B-movie crime thriller The Honeymoon Killers is a long-time cult classic, with exceptional performances from Shirley Stoler and Tony Lo Bianco. My funny Valentine: Martha loves Honeymoon Killer Ray. Writer-director Leonard […]
British director Jonathan Lynn’s American 1992 situation comedy has its moments, though it is often boring and unsubtle, as it is written (by Dale Launer) and directed with clumsy hands. However, the hard-working actors deliver […]
The Phenix City Story is high up on the hefty list of popular Fifties films devoted to exposing the mob activities of ‘the syndicate’ in one of America’s cities. Director Phil Karlson’s atmospheric and exciting […]
Blue Sky is a splendid final memorial to the late great British director Tony Richardson, who started his movie career filming Look Back in Anger (1959) and A Taste of Honey (1961) and won the Academy […]
Director Andy Tennant’s 2002 romcom stars Reese Witherspoon as Melanie Smooter, a pert and cute hick from the sticks who makes it big in the Big Apple fashion biz, and is soon talked into marriage […]
Director Tony Scott’s shocking and exhilarating 1993 crime thriller turns Quentin Tarantino’s pre-Reservoir Dogs screenplay into an astounding designer-violence style object. It is a heady, giddying odyssey into the dark side. Christian Slater stars as […]