In David Lynch’s Oscar-nominated film The Straight Story the director returns to playing as straight as he did with The Elephant Man, telling a story without...
In Eraser Arnold Schwarzenegger plays John Kruger, top agent for the US Marshalls’ Witness Protection scheme. His job is to ‘erase’ the witnesses’ past and watch...
Great blockbusters have simple, paper-thin plots but succeed because of great characters and fast-moving action and Broken Arrow, John Woo’s second Hollywood outing after Hard Target...
Forever Amber was adapted from Jerome Cady’s rollicking novel. Cromwell is dead and Charles II – played by George Sanders – is on the throne in...
Jeff Cole (Omar Epps) is a cop just out of the academy who’s thrown into undercover work by his captain (Stanley Tucci). Such is his success,...
In I Still Know What You Did Last Summer its a year after her harrowing summer, and Julie James (Jennifer Love Hewitt) is trying to forget....
Magnificent Obsession, together with All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life, is one of Douglas Sirk’s finest lush big-budget melodramas, enhanced by the lavish colour...
Black And White writer and director James Toback is a filmmaker whose reputation is high but will probably never be invited to helm a major film...
The Bedroom Window is a modern thriller styled on the film noirs of the 1940’s. After an office party, Terry Lambert (Steve Guttenberg) keeps a date...
So impressive was Rodriguez’s 1992 El Mariachi, made on a budget of around $7,000 that Columbia offered him real money to re-make it, the result being...