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Writer-director Stephan Elliott’s 1993 Avengers-style fantasy comedy crime thriller stars a slightly struggling Phil Collins as Roland Copping, a sadistic insurance investigator who gets his kicks from manipulating people’s lives with outrageous games and gimmicks. He […]
Writer-director Woody Allen’s powerful 1987 Ingmar Bergman-style movie is an intense, serious psychological drama from Allen in which six people (played by Denholm Elliott, Dianne Wiest, Mia Farrow, Elaine Stritch, Sam Waterston and Jack Warden) try […]
Director Mark Sandrich’s 1938 romantic comedy musical movie is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s eighth film together and, though there is a lot of fun to be found here, sadly the high standard is now […]
Director Joe Wright’s prequel story of an English orphan boy who is spirited away to the magical Neverland, where he looks for his long-lost mother and finds both fun and danger, is brisk, pleasant and […]
Omar Sy and Charlotte Gainsbourg star as Senegal immigrant Samba and burnt-out immigration executive Alice in this serious-minded French romantic comedy drama. It’s a fresh, most enjoyable movie, with three excellent star performances, and it’s good to see Gainsbourg […]
Director Carol Reed’s 1941 vintage film Kipps [The Remarkable Mr Kipps] stars an ideally cast Michael Redgrave, who does wonders with the role of H G Wells’s draper’s assistant and apprentice Mr Arthur Kipps. He […]
Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1986 final masterwork stars Erland Josephson, who plays Alexander, an increasingly reclusive former actor, journalist and philosopher who has shunned fame and turned away from the vanities of society. It won four awards […]