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Director Claude Chabrol’s 1984 World War Two drama, set in German occupied Paris under the horrors of Nazism, is very strongly cast but over-long at 135 minutes and struggling. Brian Moore adapts the novel by […]
This three-hour 1962 blockbuster epic presents the story of the Allied 1944 D-Day Normandy landings according to Cornelius Ryan’s bestseller, producer Darryl F Zanuck and 20th Century Fox. All of them must share the authorship […]
Co-writer/ director Bob Hoskins directs and stars in this 1987 British anti-war film, set in a European country in the midst of a bloody war. It features Dexter Fletcher as an androgynous young soldier called […]
Ah yes, there is no such thing as bad publicity, though occasionally there is such a thing as a bad film, and back in 1974 many people thought this sensationalist, provocative movie was one. Director […]
Director Richard Fleischer’s neat and short (63 minutes) 1949 black and white film noir movie The Clay Pigeon is one of those vintage Forties thrillers with the familiar but usually effective set-up of an amnesiac […]
Director John Madden’s 2001 movie version of the Louis de Bernières international bestseller was immensely popular and has some things to recommend it. But it is bland, trite, clichéd and miscast, with all the book’s […]
George Segal makes the most of one his best opportunities as the unscrupulous wheeler-dealing American fast-talker Corporal King, in Bryan Forbes’s excellent, well-crafted 1965 film King Rat. After Paul Newman and Steve McQueen turned the […]