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At the top of their game, Anthony Perkins and Tuesday Weld are stupendous in director Noel Black’s satisfying, offbeat 1968 thriller based on Stephen Geller’s novel She Let Him Continue, mixing in a little twisted […]
Adam Sandler’s early effort Billy Madison is a struggle to sit through. To inherit the wealth of his hotel chain boss dad (Darren McGavin), 27-year-old Billy Madison (Adam Sandler) has to go bad to school […]
Oscar nominated as Best Actor, Richard Dreyfuss is excellent as Mr Glenn Holland, a music teacher recalling his 40-year career – and his failure as his true vocation of being a composer – on the […]
Michael Cera is hilarious as 22-year-old geeky, jobless, band member Scott Pilgrim, who is a surprising hit with the girls. Pale and skinny are the new brown and brawny. The only problem is his latest […]
Co-writer/ director John Milius’s 1984 American Eighties right-wing propaganda action thriller Any Which Way You Can is thoroughly disreputable, but also sneakily very enjoyable as a guilty pleasure. In Milius’s screenplay with Kevin Reynolds (who […]
The Great Santini has got one of those corny taglines that might actually put people off watching a movie: ‘The bravest thing he would ever do was let his family love him.’ When the tagline […]
Jeremy Irons stars as a Tom Crick, a disillusioned high school history teacher who has been a teacher in an American school for 20 years but is having trouble connecting with his students and his […]