Die Screaming Marianne (1970) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Pete Walker, a Brit-Trash wannabe auteur of the ‘70s, has received some belated attention of late, mostly for his …
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Brideshead Revisited (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A dreary affair. I was pulling for it to work on its own terms. The Granada mini-series is one of …
Madame Bovary (1949) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
.. Vincente Minnelli’s film faced a singular problem: Gustave Flaubert’s book, the pinnacle of the 19th Century realistic novel, is …
Eight Miles High (Das Wilde Leben, 2007) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
. Well-directed but utterly shallow biography of ’60s model, hanger-on, and faux-radical Uschi Obermaier, who flees her home town and …
Black Snake Moan (2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. It’s only right that a movie paying tribute to the incantatory, perfervid nature of Blues music should tread the …
Carnal Knowledge (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Could be Mike Nichols’ best film (or is it Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Discuss). An acerbic, unforgiving, frank …
The Sentinel (1977) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Knife-wielding lingerie models in the haunted house of Satan. Oft-referenced (Ghostbusters, 1984; The ‘Burbs, 1989) but witless horror yarn …
We Own The Night (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
James Gray probably won’t make a great film until he hires a scriptwriter. His over-fondness for contrived plotting and quoting …
One From The Heart (1982) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A super-stylised neo-musical directed by Francis Ford Coppola, starring Frederic Forrest, and with a score by Tom Waits. Okay, I …
