A double weepie of flashbacks
Taking on the lead role in an adaptation of one of Nicholas Sparks’ unbearably saccharine, contrived and white, all-American love stories (Dear John, Safe Haven) is not an obvious launch pad to a succ ...
FILM REVIEWS
Ian McKellen shines above a meandering, unfocused drama about Sherlock Holmes
Joyce Glasser reviews Mr Holmes (June 19, 2015) For those who already think of Sherlock Holmes as a real person, and fans who would like to imagine him so, Bill Condon’s film, Mr Holmes, is a double-e ...
Mark Hartley’s documentary about Cannon Films is a nostalgic romp that could have been weird and wilder.
Readers who went to the movies on a regular basis in the 1980s will have seen, if only by accident, at least one film distributed by Cannon Films, a company founded in 1979 by two Israeli-born film-ob ...
A feast for sore eyes, heart and soul Marilyn Monroe’s last film is re-issued by the BFI in selected cinemas
Opening in selected cinemas nation wide to coincide with the Marilyn Monroe retrospective at the BFI this month. That The Misfits was released in 1961 as a magnificent looking two-hour movie is, in it ...