Written, directed by, and co-starring Chiwetel Ejiofor, “Rob Peace” is an example of two types of endangered commercial filmmaking: it’s a biography of somebody who isn’t famous and a handsomely ...
Of course, Donovan is also working a case of another missing person that is, of course, connected to all of the above. And, as if all of that isn’t enough, the excellent James Nesbitt drops in to chew ...
I have a certain difficulty watching Rita Tushingharn in a movie, being generally distracted by my subconscious proposals of marriage to her. She is probably the most appealing young actress in the ...
Life after death, for the villainess at least, began in 1995 with children’s author Gregory Maguire’s Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West. Maguire’s novel is a revisionist take ...
Bloody Axe Wound” mostly flies by whenever it’s a coming-of-age story about Abbie (Sari Arambulo), an awkward and ...
What we have here is a dirty soap opera. It is dirty because it intends to be, but it is a soap opera only by default. It tries to raise itself to the level of sophisticated pornography, but fails.
Working under the aegis of producer turned studio head Harry Cohn, Capra proved himself in a number of genres including ...