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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 […]
The Big Sick is very sweet and very funny, and very well sustained for its epic two hours. Kumail Nanjiani and Zoe Kazan are good but Holly Hunter is outstanding. Even the hospital stuff is funny, […]
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 […]
The enjoyable 1956 film Full of Life stars delightful Judy Holliday as Italian Catholic Emily Rocco, expecting her first child with poor husband Nick (Richard Conte). She is much put out by the meddling of […]
Writer-director Hirokazu Koreeda’s sweet and tender Japanese slice-of-life family relationships drama is a quiet, subtle little gem, slow burning, smouldering, but brightly burning. Gentle, kind, wise and forgiving, this effortlessly achieved humanist film gains its power […]
American horror company American International Pictures (AIP) gets in on the British heritage cinema cash cow and goes all posh with director Robert Fuest’s ‘modern’ 1971 version of the Emily Brontë classic novel that already […]
Director Bruce Beresford’s rousing 1983 drama swept Robert Duvall to a Best Actor Oscar and Horton Foote to a Best Original Screenplay Academy Award. Duvall is superb as the alcoholic, once-famous country singer songwriter Mac […]