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Director Luciano Emmer’s 1950 Italian multi-story comedy and drama film Domenica d’agosto [Sunday in August] is a haunting pleasure and a sweet delight, in which a rich assortment of different people spend a hot Sunday at […]
Director Zelda Barron’s 1988 musical comedy film Shag is a teenage nostalgia entertainment set in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, in the summer of 1963, and stars Phoebe Cates, Scott Coffey, Bridget Fonda, Annabeth Gish, Page […]
Leonardo DiCaprio sheds 20 pounds to get fit for the part of Richard in Danny Boyle’s fascinating, great-looking 2000 film of The Beach, with a persuasive and effective screenplay by John Hodge based on the […]
Director Joseph Losey’s 1956 A Man on the Beach is an intriguing and fair but slightly thin 29-minute Hammer Films crime thriller short feature about a reclusive blind doctor (Donald Wolfit) who encounters a career […]
Director Ted Kotcheff’s 1989 Weekend at Bernie’s is a spirited, even memorable try at that notoriously difficult genre – black comedy – in which New York insurance yuppies Larry Wilson and Richard Parker (Andrew McCarthy […]
Writer-director Bill Sherwood’s 1986 Queer Cinema drama Parting Glances is a powerful bittersweet look at New York gay life in the Eighties, with funny, touching and heart-breakingly tragic moments. Writer-director Sherwood works little wonders with […]
Director John Sturges’s 1950 Mystery Street is a well-plotted, fascinating police procedural film noir crime thriller, with Ricardo Montalban, Sally Forrest, Elsa Lanchester, Bruce Bennett, Marshall Thompson, Jan Sterling, Edmon Ryan and Betsy Blair starring. […]