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Writer-director Frank Clarke’s 1991 film has a strong premise about a spunky Liverpool lass who takes up female boxing and it is rewarded with a knockout performance from the treasurable Liverpudlian legend Margi Clarke […]
Director Tony Richardson encourages superb acting from Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield as Agnes and Tobias, an ageing, well-to-do Connecticut couple quarrelling with their family members and best friends. They are their daughter Julia (Lee Remick), ready […]
Director Blake Edwards’s 1962 drama is one of the cinema’s best films about the dangers of drink, perhaps second only to The Lost Weekend (1945). Jack Lemmon stars as clever but over-pressured advertising executive Joe Clay, who […]
Grace Kelly won the Best Actress Oscar for her non-glamorous departure role as an alcoholic actor (Bing Crosby)’s long-suffering wife, in the 1954 drama The Country Girl. Writer-director George Seaton’s double Oscar-winning 1954 drama The Country […]
Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley belatedly hit the big screen as the horrific, monstrous London media stereotypes Edina and Patsy, who are growing old disgracefully. They are the St Trinian’s older gals. Saunders writes the […]
Here’s a good, maybe even great, new comedy idea, thanks to a neatly devised, fresh minted story by Brian Burns. It’s dad versus step-dad, and it isn’t the step-dad who’s wicked! Will Ferrell stars as […]
Writer-director Nanni Moretti directs himself playing himself in his witty 1993 ironically wry look at life in three chapters like diary entries with personal stories and reflections. (1) Moretti travels around Rome on his Vespa, admiring […]