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Writer-director Bill Forsyth, best known for his whimsical, Scottish comedies such as That Sinking Feeling and Gregory’s Girl, moves to the US and delivers a rather dark and disturbing character study with comic touches in […]
Director Ken Russell’s first feature French Dressing (1964) is a British satirical seaside farce with Marisa Mell as a French starlet taken up by Gormleigh-on-Sea’s deckchair man and lady reporter as the local kind of […]
Director John Schlesinger’s nice and unruly 1981 film Honky Tonk Freeway is a zany, brash, attractive and cheerful ensemble comedy made in America by the British company EMI Films about the small town of Ticlaw […]
Director José Ferrer’s attractively campy 1961 romantic drama follow-up Return to Peyton Place begins where Peyton Place left off. Eleanor Parker (as Connie Rossi) and Mary Astor (as a selfish mother, Mrs Roberta Carter) enliven […]
Director Fred F Sears’s neat and nifty little 1954 colour Western film Overland Pacific is busy, stalwart, decently plotted and quite well made, with two good star performances from Jock Mahoney and Peggie Castle. Jock […]
The 1990 ‘thrillomedy’ film Arachnophobia stars Jeff Daniels as a nice arachnophobic doctor, Julian Sands as a crazy scientist and John Goodman as a bug exterminator, who fight off an attack of killer spiders at […]
Director Mark Robson’s 1951 drama I Want You is producer Samuel Goldwyn’s attempt to update themes from The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) in order to examine the way the Korean War affects an […]