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Director Nick Cassavetes’s 2002 thriller stars reliable Denzel Washington as John Quincy Archibald, a father and husband whose young son Michael (Daniel E. Smith) is diagnosed with an enlarged heart after he collapses at his baseball […]
The Walt Disney studio returns to L Frank Baum’s original stories for this dark-tinged 1985 fantasy about Dorothy’s non-musical trip to a derelict Yellow Brick Road and a ruined Emerald City. It’s based on Baum’s […]
Based on the 1940 Broadway stage hit play by Elmer Blaney Harris, director Jean Negulesco’s 1948 tearjerker was controversial in its day and now is still touching, sensitive and extremely enjoyable. Jane Wyman won the Best […]
Writer-director Isabel Coixet’s 2003 Canadian-Spanish co-production is a great tearjerker. Sarah Polley tugs expertly at the heartstrings as a 23-year-old wife and mother dying of ovarian cancer in this depressing, but exquisitely done and warmly affecting […]
As Steven H Price, Geoffrey Rush does a good, cheeky impersonation of Vincent Price in this welcome but iffy and not always sufficiently amusing 1999 reworking of the old 1958 William Castle horror movie. Price played […]
Danny Boyle’s cinema directorial debut Shallow Grave finds shy chartered accountant David (Christopher Eccleston) losing his mind and making the attic his home and surveillance place. He bores holes in the attic floor to spy […]
Director Antoine Fuqua’s 2003 serious-minded action thriller finds Bruce Willis on good form as a gung-ho US Navy SEAL lieutenant in Africa. But he finds that ‘God has already left Africa’ when he leads […]