Director Phillip Noyce’s 1978 Australian times are changing movie Newsfront is an excellent, likeable, good-humoured drama of rival Aussie cinema newsreel cameramen in the Fifties. They are sweet-natured Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) for ‘Cinetone’ and bad-tempered […]
Directors Stuart Walker and Mitchell Leisen’s 1933 The Eagle and the Hawk is a modest but decent World War One war action melodrama, starring Fredric March as Jerry Young, a Royal Air Force squadron flier […]
Director Edward H Griffith’s rarely revived 1937 Columbia Pictures black and white musical romance I’ll Take Romance is worth a little look, mainly for its effective and tuneful star turn by Grace Moore. As Elsa Terry, […]
A classy roster of actors embellishes director George W Hill’s 1931 gangster crime thriller The Secret 6, which tells a traditional tale of gangland warfare, bribery and corruption, and the rival crusading reporters (Johnny Mack […]
Jean Harlow eclipses the rest of the cast (even though she was ailing and made only one more movie, Saratoga) in director W S Van Dyke II’s mild if amiable 1937 romantic comedy Personal Property, […]
Anita Loos from Gentlemen Prefer Blondes helps to provide the sparkling, witty original screenplay (with John Emerson) for director Jack Conway’s entertaining Jean Harlow 1934 screwball comedy film vehicle The Girl from Missouri about Eadie Chapman, […]
Director Julie Taymor’s 2002 film Frida is a passionate, swirling and colourful biopic of doomed Mexican artist Frida Kahlo, based on the book by Hayden Herrera. It won two Oscars: Best Original Score (Elliot Goldenthal) and Best […]
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