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Director John Korty’s triumphant 1974 TV movie The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman, based on the novel by Ernest J Gaines, is classic television. Cicely Tyson stars in the lead role as Jane Pittman, along […]
‘Strange Emotions Stir the Pulse… when LOVE and PASSION clash in the world’s loneliest outpost!’ David Charleston (Michael Redgrave): ‘For all humanity I make one wish: let the people die off fast.’ Director Roy Boulting’s […]
Director Roger Spottiswoode’s sizzling 1983 Under Fire is an absolutely thrilling, first-rate political action thriller about the Nicaragua conflict in 1979, with Gene Hackman and Nick Nolte at their best as newsmen Alex Grazier and […]
Director Gavin Millar’s 1987 TV movie Scoop is a much-heralded, £2.5 million London Weekend Television (LWT) production of Evelyn Waugh’s brilliant, mischievous Fleet Street satire, adapted by William Boyd, about nature columnist William Boot (Michael […]
Writer-director Haskell Wexler’s 1969 documentary-style drama Medium Cool is based on the novel The Concrete Wilderness by Jack Couffer, and stars Robert Forster, Verna Bloom, Peter Bonerz and Marianna Hill. Ace cinematographer Wexler’s first stab […]
Robert Altman follows his masterworks The Player and Short Cuts with a much lesser movie in the same style, the 1994 satirical comedy-drama Prêt-à-Porter [Ready to Wear], as models, designers and journalists gather for Paris Fashion […]
Charlize Theron and Seth Rogen are pleasant company and well cast in the hit-and-miss 2019 romantic comedy Long Shot, in which Charlize plays Charlotte Field, who is standing as US President, and Seth plays out-of-work […]