Director George Stevens’s warm-hearted 1948 black-and-white classic household drama I Remember Mama stars Oscar nominated Irene Dunne as careful Norwegian-born Mama, who struggles to make ends meet in turn-of-the-last-century San Francisco (it is around 1910). Stevens’s […]
Director René Clair’s 1944 American fantasy film It Happened Tomorrow stars Dick Powell as Larry Stevens, the lucky 1890s newspaper obituary writer and reporter who meets a mysterious ghostly deceased newspaper man called Pop Benson (John Philliber) who has the […]
Robert Donat, Eugene Palette, Jean Parker and Elsa Lanchester all shine brightly in writer-director René Clair’s now creaky seeming but still deliciously enjoyable 1935 fanciful fantasy comedy The Ghost Goes West, with more charm and […]
Director René Clair sprinkles magic dust on this enchanting 1942 whimsical comedy about a 260-year-old witch (Veronica Lake) and her much, much older wizard dad (Cecil Kellaway) who materialise in the present to scare the […]
Director Victor Schertzinger’s bright and breezy 1940 romantic musical comedy melodrama Rhythm on the River is a welcome follow-up to Bing Crosby’s Rhythm on the Range (1936) and features good music and a pleasing plot, […]
Pardners, the title of this 12th Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis comedy is unfortunate, because their pardnership was close to breaking point by this time. Indeed, the night the film was released in cinemas, they […]
In his tour-de-force labour of love The Happy Prince, Rupert Everett tells the story of the last days in the tragic times of Oscar Wilde, a pitiful wreck of a broken man, more sinned against than […]
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