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Writer-director Cary Parker’s sweet, appealing and amusing though essentially lightweight 1985 British romantic comedy The Girl in the Picture stars John Gordon Sinclair (from Gregory’s Girl) as a Glasgow photographer called Alan, who tries to […]
Director Kevin Macdonald’s exciting period action adventure drama The Eagle (2011) is sterling stuff, with Channing Tatum unexpectedly but well employed as young Roman centurion Marcus Aquila, who arrives in Roman-ruled Britain in 140 AD, […]
Och aye, Samuel L McJackson is a sight for sore eyes with golf clubs and a kilt as Elmo McElroy, a crooked master chemist who heads to the UKto launch a new designer drug in […]
The Bill Douglas Trilogy, made on tiny budgets from the British Film Institute, are dour and downbeat, highly personal autobiographical films, but they cast a remarkable spell in terms of mood and emotion that is […]
Director Anthony Kimmins’s 1962 British comedy The Amorous Prawn has the huge advantage of entertaining people to perform it, and they make much of this film version of the director’s gently farcical stage hit. Joan […]
Director John Huston’s light-hearted, sexy, humorous 1969 comedy period adventure romp Sinful Davey finds the great director on one of his more careless days, or at least carefree days, and it is the actors and […]
Director Marcel Varnel’s 1941 vintage British black and white comedy thriller The Ghost of St Michael’s stars Will Hay again as a tatty teacher called William Lamb involved with spies once more. Hay takes on […]