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Russell Tovey stars as a closeted gay footballer in The Pass (2016). The Pass (2016) has a witty, punning title. There is a football pass on the football field, which has a central significance in […]
James Stewart stars as absent-minded poet American Professor Robert Leaf, whose little boy Erasmus with freckles (Billy Mumy) is a maths prodigy who writes a fan letter to real-life French superstar Brigitte Bardot, in director […]
Writer-director Woody Allen’s trip to Rome produces a very odd and very silly, though weirdly likeable and sometimes very amusing, multi-stranded romantic comedy. It gives the impression of being dashed off in a hurry to […]
Martin Short stars as obese TV host and culture critic Jiminy Glick, who gets tied up in a murder case at the Toronto Film Festival, in director Vadim Jean’s relatively amusing Canadian comedy, a soft parody of the […]
Celebrity has to be counted a bit of an intriguing flop in 1998 from writer-director Woody Allen (who doesn’t appear, which is always bad news). Kenneth Branagh is miscast and struggling in what amounts to […]
Hard Times with Dickens. Ralph Fiennes directs himself as Charles Dickens, who at the height of his career meets and falls for a younger woman, Ellen ‘Nelly’ Ternan (Felicity Jones), who becomes his secret mistress up […]
Co-writer/director Federico Fellini infamously dissects the decadent life of Rome in 1960, a world populated by cynical journalists and dissolute, disillusioned people like bored socialite Maddalena (Anouk Aimée), sexpot film star Sylvia (Anita Ekberg) and strip-teasing countess […]