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Writer-directors Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s 2019 buddy-buddy adventure comedy drama The Peanut Butter Falcon is a highly entertaining, warm hearted crowd-pleaser, with a strong screenplay and excellent performances, as well as a nice sense […]
Robert Donat finds one of his best roles in director King Vidor’s ideal 1938 film version of A J Cronin’s novel about a young, enthusiastic doctor, Dr Andrew Manson, who sells out the principles that […]
Director Jon Avnet’s very nice and sweet 1991 nostalgic drama Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café [Fried Green Tomatoes] stars Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged glutton housewife who bumps into a jolly old […]
In 1971 Jack Lemmon expertly directs (in his début and sole film as director) his old buddy Walter Matthau as Joseph ‘Kotch’ Kotcher, a septuagenarian retired salesman widower who refuses to let his adult children […]
Nicholas Sparks’s famous 1996 romantic epic novel arrives on screen in 2004 courtesy director Nick Cassavetes and a screenplay by Jeremy Leven (adaptation by Jan Sardi). Incredibly popular as the 15th highest-grossing romantic drama film of all time, and […]
Director Marek Kanievska’s 2000 caper thriller finds good work for Paul Newman, who is on the money as Henry Mannin, an old master criminal and legendary bank robber who manoeuvres himself out of jail and […]
In the superlative 1996 heart-tugger film Marvin’s Room, Meryl Streep and Diane Keaton are at their best as sisters Lee and Bessie who have been estranged since their father Marvin (Hume Cronyn)’s stroke 17 years […]