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Vincenzo Antonucci and Francesco Pellegrino star as best friends Mario and Lino, living a poor but pleasant life in Naples. Lino has a crazy mother and a sister who is being hailed a little saint. […]
‘A hero of war. A casualty of peace. With only one hope for survival. His son.’ Director Rick Rosenthal’s 1988 drama Distant Thunder is a well-played and likeable, but clichéd and over-sentimental Canadian tearjerker, though […]
‘Heaven help us all when The Devil’s Rain! The ULTIMATE in Satanic possession!’ A first-rate cast of old reliables is largely wasted in director Robert Fuest’s occasionally interesting and creepy, but often daft and kitsch […]
William Saroyan wrote a 240-page, four-hour script for the 1943 film The Human Comedy, which MGM deemed too long. He refused to compromise and was dumped as director. He turned his script into a bestselling […]
Writer-director Robert Bresson’s spare, stark and enigmatic 1959 French film Pickpocket is rightly considered to be one of the great film-maker’s greatest films. The young Uruguayan non-professional actor Martin LaSalle stars as the Pickpocket, with […]
Director Wayne Wang’s 1989 Eat a Bowl of Tea is a gently amusing, telling and well acted 1940s-set romantic comedy drama about the family troubles of a young Chinese-American, Ben Loy (Russell Wong), when he […]
Director Ian Sharp’s amusing, heart-warming 2002 British comedy drama Mrs Caldicot’s Cabbage War is based on a 1993 novel by Vernon Coleman, and has a nice cast headed by Pauline Collins, John Alderton and Peter […]