Director Anthony Asquith’s 1942 British World War Two wartime film Uncensored is based on the 1937 novel by Oscar Millard, is set in occupied Belgium, and stars Eric Portman, Phyllis Calvert and Griffith Jones. André Delange […]
Charles Laughton and Boris Karloff overact entertainingly as a mad French nobleman and the family servant in Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Door in 1951. Director Joseph Pevney’s 1951 black and white Universal-International Pictures horror film […]
Director Duilio Coletti’s 1960 Italian-American war film Under Ten Flags [Sotto Dieci Bandiere] stars Van Heflin, Charles Laughton, John Ericson, Mylène Demongeot, and Cecil Parker. Under Ten Flags is an intriguing and involving Italian-made World War […]
The 1954 Italian-American historical adventure film Ulysses [Ulisse] is based on the poem The Odyssey by Homer, and stars Kirk Douglas, Silvana Mangano, Anthony Quinn and Rossana Podestà. Director Mario Camerini’s 1954 fantasy-adventure historical drama […]
Czech-born novelist Milan Kundera’s best-known work is The Unbearable Lightness of Being: the idea is that everything is guaranteed to recur infinitely in an infinite universe. But he complained about the film version. Director Philip […]
Friends actress Jennifer Aniston stars as Olivia in the appealing and perceptive 2006 American comedy-drama film Friends with Money, wittily written and nimbly directed by Nicole Holofcener. Single woman Olivia cleans houses in Los Angeles […]
The third in the Walking Tall series, director Jack Starrett’s 1977 action thriller Walking Tall: Final Chapter [Final Chapter: Walking Tall], is more of the same violent adventures of Southern vigilante sheriff Buford Pusser, only […]