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Writer-director Woody Allen’s 2017 Wonder Wheel is a dark, bleak masterwork, a late gem from the troubled film-maker, in the vein of his Blue Jasmine. I think I counted one attempt at joke in the entire […]
Director S Sylvan Simon’s 1938 Universal screwball comedy Western The Road to Reno stars Randolph Scott as rancher farm boss Steve Fortness, who battles with the perils of Western life – and particularly fights with his […]
Despite starring four notable players Jackie Gleason, Steve McQueen, Tuesday Weld and Tony Bill in their prime, director Ralph Nelson’s 1963 film is a really tedious, overheated wartime romantic comedy drama Army master-sergeant Maxwell Slaughter […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s chilly and attractively unusual 1969 low budget German black-and-white film is his first feature, valuable as an interesting apprentice work of this important director. It tells a dour and doomy noir-style gangster story, as seen through […]
Writer-director Darren Aronofsky’s Mother! starts quite well enough, with an intriguing beginning that promises upmarket mystery and chiller excitement, and then improves a lot when classy performers Ed Harris and Michelle Pfeiffer join the movie and it starts […]
Director Rowland V Lee’s creaky but creepy 1930 Paramount horror thriller brings back Warner Oland, who is fun re-creating his role as Sax Rohmer’s evil criminal mastermind Dr Fu Manchu from the 1929 film The […]
Director Jon Nguyen’s 2016 biographical documentary is fascinating, informative, entertaining and richly enjoyable. It throws much light on David Lynch’s art, which is remarkable and much less well known than his films. Lynch proves as […]