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Gabriel D’Almeida Freitas and Xavier Dolan star as Matthias & Maxime, which finds writer-director Xavier Dolan in romantic mode, edgy, unconventional romantic mode perhaps, but definitely romantic mode. The French-Canadian film, mostly in French focuses […]
Director Pat O’Connor’s 1987 British drama A Month in the Country is a subtle film version of J L Carr’s novel, made with TV in mind but promoted to a cinema release. The tale is […]
A very good cast is dreadfully wasted in director Jay Sandrich’s naff, turgid and woeful 1996 comedy London Suite, an adaptation of Neil Simon’s follow-up to his hilarious plays and films California Suite and Plaza […]
Director Josie Rourke’s modern re-interpretation of the tragic historical story of Mary Queen of Scots is vivid and ambitious. Unfortunately, it is not a happy, feel-good story, and the film is more on the interesting […]
A South London mechanic (Colin Campbell) marries a teenager (Rita Tushingham), but they drift apart, so he takes to going biking with his leather-jacketed gay biker chum (Dudley Sutton), in the trail-blazing 1964 British film […]
Director John Huston’s salacious and compulsive but awkward 1967 high heat Deep South melodrama Reflections in a Golden Eye is based on the Carson McCullers novel and boasts the right cast on compelling form, particularly […]
Writer-director Barry Jenkins’s 2016 story of self-discovery spotlights three eras in the troubled early life of a young black-American man called Chiron from childhood via mid-teenager to young adulthood. It is based on the play In […]