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Director Daniel Petrie’s 1988 senior citizen sci-fi sequel Cocoon: The Return sees the welcome return of the spaced-out Florida wrinklies, with more or less everybody (the entire main cast) returning from the original, but not […]
Director Peter Duffell’s riveting 1980 Caught on a Train stars Peggy Ashcroft as Frau Messner, an imperious Austrian lady who terrifies young Briton Peter (Michael Kitchen) on an overnight train passing through Germany, in writer […]
Director Bruce Beresford’s 1989 comedy drama is based on his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play by screen-writer Alfred Uhry and triumphed at the box office (it took $106 million in the US) and at the Academy […]
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 […]
Mirren and Sutherland give impeccable performances as troubled oldsters in this quirky bitter-sweet comedy road drama in which they set of in their vintage camper van The Leisure Seeker for one last ride. International treasures […]
Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]
Director Anthony Harvey’s 1984 movie is a provocative, intentionally weird and deliberately unpleasant black comedy vehicle for Katharine Hepburn as old New York widow Grace Quigley who blackmails top hit-man Seymour Flint (Nick Nolte) into killing her and […]