staff movie picks
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Geena Davis delivers a beautifully-rendered performance in this sensitive drama, about a pregnant working-class woman who ditches her longtime boyfriend and ekes out life as a single mother.
~ Nathan Southern -
Burt Lancaster gives one of his best performances in Louis Malle’s brilliant character study as an aging hood in love with a much-younger casino worker (Susan Sarandon) who suddenly comes into possession of drugs that belong to the mob.
~ Tim Holland -
As the exceedingly unhinged alcoholic Withnail, Richard E. Grant presents one of filmdom’s most eccentric characters as the 1960s come to a gloriously messy end in this cult classic, courtesy of George Harrison’s HandMade Films, following unemployed actors escaping London for a trip to the country. With Paul McGann and Richard Griffiths.
~ Joe Friedrich
