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They pushed their luck making a third one when the material was already starting to wear thin in The Karate Kid Part II and the ‘Kid’ Ralph Macchio was nearly 30 (though he does look […]
‘What’s worse than an aching tooth at three in the morning. Two of them.’ There is much good-natured mirth when Stan Laurel goes to the dentist’s surgery, with predictable results when he and his mate […]
Director Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida is a passionate, swirling and colourful biopic of doomed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, based on the book by Hayden Herrera. It won two Oscars: Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best […]
The old woman who walked in the sea at Guadeloupe is played by Jeanne Moreau, come there, along with her faithful companion Pompilius (Michel Serrault), to cure her arthritis and blackmail a businessman. Lady M’s […]
Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger’s 1949 British thriller The Small Back Room is an intricate film of the excellent 1943 Nigel Balchin novel about a bitter World War Two bomb expert and his battle to […]
An alienated teenage boy (Freddie Cunliffe) begins to suspect his father (Ray Winstone) is abusing his older sister (Lara Belmont) in director Tim Roth’s well-meaning, painstaking though alienating 1998 film of a controversial novel by […]
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s admirable 2016 film is a polished and provocative melodrama based on three short stories written by the Canadian author and 2013 Nobel laureate, Alice Munro. It is, surprisingly only his 20th movie in a […]