Computer-written comedy about a Reno lounge singer who witnesses a mob murder and, while waiting for a court date, hides out in a Carmelite convent, whips the cacophonous choir into shape (giving a Christian twist to that girl-rock classic, "I Will Follow Him," as Kenneth Anger already did in Scorpio …
Mob hitmen are no longer on the tail of our Vegas entertainer, so why would she give up a booming career and disguise herself once more as the Singing Nun? (Even she wants to know: "Somebody tell me why I'm dressed like this again.") Well, to make money for Father …
Decidedly weak tea (and not so hot, either), with filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli holding forth from the head of the table as a rambling raconteur, remembering the days of his youth among the artsy English ladies of pre-war and mid-war Florence ("I've warmed both hands before the fires of Botticelli and …
Maggie Smith, Judi Dench, Joan Plowright, and Eileen Atkins invite the cameras to join them for several of their regular afternoon teas as they reminisce about their more than fifty years of friendship — from their modest beginnings to their years of taking home awards by the carload — and …
Whatever happened to the Maggie Smith who used to score heavily, but surreptitiously, in humble supporting roles? Having collected an Oscar for her worst screen performance as Jean Brodie, here returns worse yet, matching the George Cukor decors in gaudiness, tossing around gestures faster than the eye can follow. The …
Agnieszka Holland's adaptation of the Henry James novel, already adapted in 1949 by William Wyler under the name of The Heiress. Or more accurately, Wyler's was an adaptation of a stage-play adaptation under that name. The older one, all in all, was more of a movie, but Holland, having spent …