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Director Norman Stone’s 1987 TV movie stars Dirk Bogarde, who brings his distinctive touch to the part of veteran broadcaster James Marriner, ‘Gentle Jim’, an ex-TV newsman lured into the spider’s web of an evangelical […]
Director Roger Michell’s welcome but strained 2010 romantic comedy drama has the advantage of starring the formidable team of Rachel McAdams, Harrison Ford, Diane Keaton and Jeff Goldblum. The lovely and adorable Rachel McAdams is as bright […]
Italian writer-director Ettore Scola’s affectingly nostalgic 1989 salute to the cinema is as good and glorious as the much more lauded Cinema Paradiso (1988). Marcello Mastroianni is splendid as Jordan, the owner and manager of the […]
Director Roger Corman’s infamous 1967 drugs exploitation psychedelic movie is notable for Jack Nicholson writing the intriguing if disjointed screenplay. The story focuses on young television commercial director Paul Groves (Peter Fonda, convincing) who gets into a state […]
Writer-director Pedro Almodóvar’s amusingly provocative 1987 Spanish comedy drama about two male lovers and the sex-change sister (Carmen Maura) of one of them is a highly animated and deliciously extravagant movie. Eusebio Poncela stars as Pablo, who writes […]
Admired cult director Douglas Sirk’s gloriously plush 1955 romantic melodrama All That Heaven Allows stars Jane Wyman as the lovely New England upper-class widow Cary Scott who falls for the down-to-earth, hunky, romantic, much younger […]
François Truffaut’s love of books shines through his thoroughly compelling and intriguing adaptation from Ray Bradbury’s 1953 novel of his 1984-style sci-fi story about a typically oppressive, dystopian future world where books have been outlawed […]