10 Oct 2012 Director: John Madden USA 2010 113 min This gripping thriller uses a clever time-shifting technique to keep the audience wondering right until the end just how the events of the past might come to revisit themselves upon the present. The story focuses on a Mossad mission in 1966, when three agents tracked… Continue reading The Debt
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The Comfort Of Strangers
15 Dec 1993 Director: Paul Schrader Italy, UK 1990 104 min Paul Schrader’s film of Ian McEwan’s novel adapted by Harold Pinter is a strange and unsettling thriller set in Venice where Rupert Everett and Natasha Richardson are second honeymooning. They encounter the aristocratic Robert who is the catalyst for what remains of the couple’s… Continue reading The Comfort Of Strangers
Madness Of King George
10 Jan 1996 Director: Nicholas Hytner UK, USA 1994 110 min Re-titled from the play The Madness of George III (so Americans would not ask to see I and II), this film is an ebullient tragic-comedy adapted by Alan Bennett from his own stage play. It is a ribald romp through the royal courtyards of… Continue reading Madness Of King George