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‘Sometimes, no matter what, you can’t escape the rhythm.’ Writer-director Nick Castle’s 1989 musical drama Tap stars Gregory Hines as footloose Max Washington, just released from prison, who can’t decide between a life of crime […]
Writer-producer-director Larry Cohen’s goofy, lively and engaging 1981 horror spoof Full Moon High has a similar plot to the later Teen Wolf (1985) in its story about a school kid (Adam Arkin) who turns into […]
Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s cool zombie comedy The Dead Don’t Die (2019) is consistently amusing throughout, with a whole lot of laughs and chortles. It is the knowing comedy of irrelevance, sarcasm, throwaway lines, absurdities and […]
Minnie and Moskowitz is a surprisingly relaxed and gentle 1971 romantic drama film from cult favourite writer-director John Cassavetes. It once again stars his wife Gena Rowlands, who plays Minnie, a Los Angeles museum curator, […]
Writer-director Jim Cummings also stars brilliantly in the clever, charming and heartfelt Thunder Road (2018) as police officer Jim Arnaud, who goes into a personal meltdown after his divorce and the death of his mother, leading to […]
Brio film-making but way too strong and scary for me. Writer-director Gaspar Noé’s dynamic but hellish 2018 musical horror drama Climax is controversial brio film-making, perhaps admirable in its way, but way too strong and […]
John Wayne plays Kentucky frontiersman militiaman John Breen and is again paired with his studio boss’s wife Vera Ralston as the upper-crust French woman Fleurette De Marchand he falls for, in writer-director George Waggner’s so-so, middling […]