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Director Martin Ritt’s 1985 romance finally provides a great role for James Garner as Murphy, a crusty, widowed chemist who gradually falls for another of life’s waifs and strays – younger divorced mother Emma Moriarity (Sally […]
John Hawkes stars as alcoholic ex-cop Mike Kendall, who finds the body of a young woman and puts his family in danger when he becomes hell-bent on finding the killer. The trail leads to a […]
In the recent past in a small town in Northern China, a mute shepherd father goes on an increasingly desperate, do-or-die search when his son disappears. It all tracks back to a gang, run by […]
The 1968 romantic comedy film Buona Sera, Mrs Campbell is an excellent showcase for Gina Lollobrigida, who gives a delightful performance as an Italian mother who has conned three American World War Two lovers. Co-writer/ […]
The sexy and steamy 1958 Deep South melodrama film The Long, Hot Summer stars Paul Newman as barn burning conman Ben Quick, who arrives in a Mississippi small town and ingratiates himself with its richest […]
Director John Schlesinger’s 1983 Home Box Office TV movie is a particularly well cast, carefully handled and subtly performed remake of the Terence Rattigan twin one-act plays, with a faithful script based on his 1954 […]
Co-writer/ director Federico Fellini’s haunting, fascinatingly self-reflecting film from 1953 focuses on a group of five laddish youngster friends – Moraldo Rubini (Franco Interlenghi), Fausto Moretti (Franco Fabrizi), Alberto (Alberto Sordi), Leopoldo Vannucci (Leopoldo Trieste), Riccardo (Riccardo […]