‘Notes on a Scandal’
Richard Eyres brilliant study of a friendship gone awry, Notes on a Scandal features two of the years greatest performances.
Richard Eyres brilliant study of a friendship gone awry, Notes on a Scandal features two of the years greatest performances.
Despite some problems there are many pleasures to be found in the screen adaptation of Dreamgirls.
Soderbergh tries so hard to make The Good German feel like an old-style film, that he forgets to make it a good one.
Clint Eastwood’s second look at Iwo Jima this year is a must-see.
Im pleased to say that Oscar in all his rather finite wisdom has done a pretty good job in reflecting the last year in film.
This political drama and pseud-biopic offers plenty of excellent performances.
It’s hard to say whether Making Love was groundbreaking or merely sensational when it was released 24 years ago, but the slight soap opera certainly made little impact either way. Arthur Hiller, director of the sob-fest Love Story a decade earlier directs this predictable story of homosexuality … Read more
Julian Fellowes’ adultery mystery features Tom Wilkinson in one of the year’s finest performances.
Sometimes an actor can save a weakly-made film. In Bob Rafelson’s 1996 dud Blood and Wine, though, two of the greatest actors of all time, Michael Caine and Jack Nicholson, are left to work overtime. And the results still disappoint.
Win lose or draw it was a decidedly average year for Hollywood. Heres why.