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Director Mandie Fletcher’s 1994 British black comedy is a sometimes funny but often uneasy experience, though it comes through with an excellent cast on good form. Jane Horrocks and Imelda Staunton give expert and amusingly oddball […]
The light comedy of manners A Midsummer Night’s Sex Comedy finds writer-director Woody Allen in playful, lyrical mood in 1982, toasting one of his inspirations, Ingmar Bergman, and especially his film Smiles of a Summer Night (1955), […]
Kerwin Mathews makes a dashing, handsome but rather bland hero as Lemuel Gulliver in co-writer/director Jack Sher’s swift 1960 run-through of Jonathan Swift’s 1726 satirical novel Gulliver’s Travels, with the emphasis on the familiar Brobdingnagian […]
You’ve got to hand it to Mr Nice Guy Tom Hanks, he hasn’t given up on Tom Tykwer, the director of his 2012 box-office loser Cloud Atlas. (It cost $102million and earned back only $27million in the US.) […]
John Carradine is typecast yet again in one of his long gallery of mad doctor scientists in director Brooke L Peters [aka Boris Petroff]’s plodding and very silly 1957 Sci-Fi chiller. It says much that […]
Co-writer/director Joseph L Mankiewicz’s 1950 pioneering hospital-bound race-issue film-noir melodrama No Way Out is commendably intense and powerful. Sidney Poitier stars as Dr Luther Brooks, a young black doctor whose white patient dies; a race […]
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s intriguing but odd and alienating 2011 thriller is his 18th film, in a brilliant career that runs all the way back to Pepi, Luci, Bom in 1980. In his first collaboration with Almodóvar in […]