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American Flyers (1985) stars Kevin Costner, who gets on his bike for screen-writer Steve Tesich’s lower-gear follow-up to his 1979 cycle movie Breaking Away. The yarn about two brothers (Costner as the fit sibling, sports […]
French garage mechanic Charlie (Xavier Gélin) sabotages cars and takes the stranded motorists to stay at struggling owner the Marquise (Madeleine Renaud)’s mountain area hotel. But they get a shock when the baron César Maricorne […]
Director Richard Loncraine’s 1982 film The Missionary stars, and is written and produced by, Michael Palin, and finds room for a treasure trove of Brit performers. Palin’s The Missionary is a fairly funny comedy, in […]
Writer-director Eric Rohmer’s 1986 French film Four Adventures of Reinette and Mirabelle [4 aventures de Reinette et Mirabelle] is a lesser but still delightful and fascinating work by the esteemed director of Claire’s Knee (1970). It […]
The 1962 film The Fast Lady is a genial Carry On-style comedy with amusing turns from James Robertson Justice, Stanley Baxter and Leslie Phillips. Director Ken Annakin’s 1962 British Eastmancolor film The Fast Lady is […]
Best known for his thrillers, British director Peter Yates delivers a triumph with this exhilarating 1979 American comedy, with a smashing lead performance from Dennis Christopher, who deserved to go on to stardom. Christopher plays […]
Ben Foster is good as cyclist Lance Armstrong, who never stops cycling – or lying, apparently. ‘I have never tested positive’, he says positively as he categorically denies drug-taking over and over again. Foster is […]