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Director Stephen Frears follows up The Snapper (1993) with his lesser but still enjoyable 1996 film The Van, based on Roddy Doyle’s novel The Van, the third in his Barrytown Trilogy. The film stars Colm […]
Director Leslie Norman’s 1959 black and white comedy drama Summer of the Seventeenth Doll [Season of Passion] stars Ernest Borgnine, John Mills, Angela Lansbury and Anne Baxter, and Norman brings back Dana Wilson, the little […]
Director John D Hancock’s 1973 sports drama Bang the Drum Slowly stars young Robert De Niro giving a moving performance as mentally simple Bruce the catcher, a New York baseball player dying of Hodgkin’s disease, who […]
Director Frank Perry’s strong, dark, X-rated 1969 drama of troubled teens Last Summer is based on Evan Hunter’s novel of youthful passions, teen angst and young cruelty. Last Summer is an intelligent, believable version of […]
Director Richard Benjamin’s 1984 Racing with the Moon is an attractive, affectionate, poignant World War Two coming of age tale of two young men about to go to off war in 1943 California as they await […]
Director Don Taylor’s 1973 family musical adventure Tom Sawyer is the fourth talkie version of the Mark Twain classic novel The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, coming appropriately from Reader’s Digest. It is aimed squarely at […]
Director Tom Hooper’s belated movie version of Andrew Lloyd Webber’s beloved iconic stage musical Cats (2019) is painless, apart from the restless hand held camera and the CGI, which are painful. The film doesn’t look […]