Junior (Hope), Harvard educated son of dearly departed Paleface Potter, returns to the frontier-town of Sawbuck Pass and quickly discovers that he’s inherited his father’s debts....
Daniel Taradash steers clear of any attempt to explain the supernatural goings-on at the centre of this tale of modern-day magic. The fact that witches and...
In present day London, Pete Thompson’s (Rhys Ifans) cushy life is rudely interrupted when his father dies, leaving him to run the family’s publishing business. Irked...
An anthology of Stephen King anecdotes, part new material, part dramatisation of two short stories. The disparate elements are threaded together by the fate of a...
Rocky meets Raging Bull in this heavyweight tale reworking High Noon as a tale of endemic police corruption featuring two actors at the opposite end of...
Alexandre Dumas’s classic novel was first filmed by James Whale in 1939 and most recently in 1998 with Leonardo DiCaprio, but Mike Newell’s version sticks faithfully...
Despite labouring under the advertising tagline ‘Stirring – in the seeing! Precious – in the remembering!’ Frank Capra’s 1939 classic was originally intended to be a...
When American independent cinema made its triumphant return to form, and lucrative success, in the mid-’80s, Spike Lee was at the forefront. Famously made for little...
Craig Schwartz (John Cusack) is a failing street puppeteer married to pet shop owner Lotte (Cameron Diaz). Needing money, he takes a job as a filing...
A fictionalised love affair involving one of Europe’s greatest leaders forms the basis for this largely inaccurate biopic of a part of Napoleon’s life. Marlon Brando...