Author: Dave Franklin

Despite being a much derided actress, I’ve somehow grown fond of Brooke Shields. I quite like her early work

Although the likes of De Niro, Donald Sutherland and Burt Lancaster are faves, I’ve always been a bit disappointed with myself for never getting around to Bernardo Bertolucci’s two-part historical drama.

Cruise and his elderly mentor Bryan Brown are such cash-chasing, monumental twats in this massive box-office hit that it’s nigh on impossible to look away.

Ah, what better way to start than the Holocaust? Now, as Schindler’s List showed, Amon Göth leisurely shooting inmates from his balcony was fun, but I’m afraid Hollywood’s first attempt at dealing with this cheeriest of subjects

Lady Macbeth (Annis) starts off as the leading force in Polanski’s visceral, demon-confronting box-office bomb.

Having not long completed a turn as a zombified bitch in 1981’s atmospheric horror flick Dead & Buried, Blount snagged herself a Golden Globe for another death-causing turn in this tremendous romantic drama

I like a bitch in the movies. There’s something fascinating about a woman being nasty and doing evil stuff. I prefer my spiteful sheilas to be sane, though.