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Director Charles Shyer’s 1984 Irreconcilable Differences is an attractive, sweet-and-sour romantic comedy, with Ryan O’Neal and Shelley Long playing Albert and Lucy, a self-centred Hollywood couple sued for divorce by their precocious 10-year-old daughter Casey […]
Director David Butler’s 1935 The Little Colonel stars little Miss Shirley Temple at her best, and includes the famous staircase tap dance sequence between the young heroine and Bill Robinson often seen in clips. As […]
Little Women (2019) is nominated for six Oscars and five Baftas, but it is an over-earnest, plodding and underwhelming movie, with writer-director Greta Gerwig struggling to make Louisa May Alcott’s novel more ‘modern’ and ‘relevant’ […]
Director Nicolas Gessner’s 1976 The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane is a dark, taut, extremely well-done Grand Guignol suspense thriller, teetering on the edge of bad taste. Jodie Foster stars as the 13-year-old […]
Director Jafar Panahi’s intense Iranian winner of the 1995 Camera D’Or at the Cannes Film Festival is a nice try at something intelligent and different. This much admired film from Iran is well made and distinctly unsettling. […]
Writer-director Zak Hilditch’s enterprising Aussie thriller takes place on the last day on Earth, starting just 12 hours before a cataclysmic event will end life as we know it. It seems like a meteor has collided with Earth in […]
The startling 2015 feature film Dheepan from Jacques Audiard, the maker of A Prophet and Rust and Bone, is quite an eye-opener and an emotional ride, as well as a real impressive piece of film-making, winning the […]