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Joan Micklin Silver’s attractively played, perceptively written and hugely entertaining 1977 cult movie Between the Lines focuses on life on a Boston youth-slanted alternative newspaper. Director Joan Micklin Silver’s attractively played, perceptively written and hugely entertaining […]
The talented Alan J Pakula directs and writes this attractive up-market 1989 soap opera. But the warm performances and his intelligent dialogue only partly disguise a smug cuteness lurking in the story. With the chilling […]
A young orphaned African-American family battles to survive in Manhattan. Jazz player Hugh (Hugh Hurd) struggles to make a dollar or two singing in low bars; his sister Leila (Leila Goldoni) joins the phony art […]
Director George Blair’s nasty but intriguing 1960 horror movie is a slice of bizarre cinematic sleaze. Jacques Bergerac plays the popular stage hypnotist The Great Desmond who delights in hypnotising beautiful young women into mutilating […]
Fasten your seat belts for Diana Dors as the irresistibly sexy temptress Calico in the 1958 British crime thriller film Tread Softly Stranger. Director Gordon Parry’s underrated realist 1958 British thriller Tread Softly Stranger stars George […]
Director Gerald Thomas’s farcical 1965 British comedy is a very jolly romp starring Sidney James and Dick Emery as crooks who leave jail after 15 years only to find that the tree hiding their loot […]
Director Harry Keller’s 1961 follow-up film to the first hit Tammy and the Bachelor has Sandra Dee taking over from Debbie Reynolds as kind-hearted Tammy Tyree as she smirks and schmoozes her way through college, […]