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Director David Zucker’s brilliantly zany 1991 The Naked Gun 2½: The Smell of Fear is more of the same comic misadventures with the treasurable Leslie Nielsen back as the seriously inept LA cop Lieutenant Frank […]
Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]
The Larkins ride again in director C M Pennington-Richards’s genial 1960 film Inn for Trouble, a big-screen adaptation of the then current, highly popular Fifties/Sixties British ITV series that ran from 1958 to 1964. Peggy […]
As you’ve probably gathered from all the ads and trailers, Tom Cruise is back for his sixth Mission: Impossible, starring once more as Ethan Hunt, who rejoins his sturdy, stalwart little IMF team of Ving […]
Director Harry Booth’s saucy slice-of-life 1972 British comedy is the middle film in the 1969 to 1973 ITV show film spinoff series, following 1971’s On the Buses. It tries its best, and there are a few […]
Director Bob Kellett’s saucily coarse, very much hit-and-miss 1972 British comedy Up the Front stars the great comedian Frankie Howerd, who is again is on tittersome form as Lurk, Lord Twithampton (William Mervyn)’s cowardly servant. […]
Dwayne Johnson stars as hard-man lifeguard Mitch Buchannon, who clashes with brash, conceited new beach boy recruit Matt Brody (Zac Efron). But then together they uncover a criminal plot by drugs villainess Victoria Leeds (Priyanka Chopra). Yes […]