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Director Hugh Brody’s fascinating 1985 British independent film drama Nineteen Nineteen [19/19] is a worthy though wordy look back at the past as, 65 years on, two imagined former patients of Dr Sigmund Freud discuss […]
Director Richard Lester’s elaborate and boisterous 1984 screwball farce Finders Keepers is set on a trans-American train, aboard which a couple, Georgiana (Pamela Stephenson) and her lover Josef Sirola (Ed Lauter), have hidden their stolen […]
Director David Askey’s 1973 British feature film Take Me High stars Cliff Richard, who takes us low in this rare item, a British musical about Birmingham, banks and beefburgers (the dreaded Brumburger!) – brought to us […]
The cast and crew return from the 1961 hit The Young Ones for director Sidney J Furie’s 1964 follow-up musical Wonderful Life [Swingers’ Paradise]. Cliff Richard and The Shadows are stranded on the Canary Islands, […]
Writer-director Timothy Forder’s 1993 British film The Mystery of Edwin Drood stars Robert Powell, who is ideally cast but strangely subdued – exactly the wrong mode for this Grand Guignol mystery thriller – as Jasper […]
Co-writer/ director Anthony Friedman’s 1970 British drama Bartleby offers a rare opportunity to see Paul Scofield on film as The Accountant, the sympathetic boss of a young accounting clerk called Bartleby (John McEnery) who rebels against […]
Co-writer/ director Dick Clement’s 1985 British film Water is a feeble Ealing Studios-style comedy, with good players, perhaps encouraged by the thinness of the script, to be too generous with the scale of their performances. […]