News, reviews and interviews from the cinema world. Jenny Agutter and David Naughton star in
An American Werewolf in London (1981), a contemporary spoof horror on the wolf-man classics, written and directed by John Landis. Richard Burton plays schoolmaster-priest Fr Goddard and Billy Connolly makes his dramatic film debut in
Absolution (1978), a suspense thriller set in a Roman Catholic boys' school. Oscar-winning actress Sally Field teams up with Tommy Lee Jones in
Back Roads (1981), an off-beat romantic comedy which follows their unlikely friendship as they travel across America together.
—Radio Times