"Italian director Marco Pontecorvo has made a film about a rural Portuguese community that might possibly have got more media attention had there not been something else more newsworthy going on in Europe at the time," writes reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
There’s nothing in "The New Mutants" 94-minute run time that even the world’s most bestest pubic-relations flack could inflate its reputation into a crowd pleaser for all audience tastes, says movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
Film reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD is energised by "Les Miserables", and its portrayal of an exciting, vigorous, confronting, sympathetic day in the life of people abandoned by society.
"'Sequin in a Blue Room' deals with an aspect of male behaviour that’s there from the instant of conception until death. No medical procedure or pharmaceutical nostrum can alter it," writes movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD.
In "Made in Italy" Liam Neeson plays Robert, an artist whose painting career is stalled and whose spirit is depressed. Does it get any better? Movie reviewer DOUGAL MACDONALD has the answer.