Douglas Sirk directs this heady 1957 four-hankie, majorly tear-jerking romantic melodrama, a remake of the 1939 hit When Tomorrow Comes, with Irene Dunne and Charles Boyer, based on the original story A Modern Cinderella by James M Cain, […]
Douglas Sirk’s lavish, sentimental, flag-waving 1957 American war film stars Rock Hudson as Lt Colonel Dean Hess, a real-life US fighter pilot in the Korean War who helped to evacuate hundreds of war orphans to safety. Director […]
John Gavin made two films with German-born director Douglas Sirk in the late Fifties – A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958) and Imitation of Life (1959) – that greatly raised his profile. Gavin won […]
Director Franklin J Schaffner’s outstanding 1964 film stars Henry Fonda, Cliff Robertson, Lee Tracy, Margaret Leighton, Edie Adams, Kevin McCarthy, Shelley Berman and Ann Sothern. Tracy was Oscar nominated as Best Actor in a Supporting Role. […]
Joaquin Phoenix stars in The Master (2012) as Freddie Quell, a World War Two US naval veteran having trouble integrating back into civilian life and undergoing a series of breakdowns. This leads him to being drawn to […]
The final chapter in the Shades of Grey trilogy is the worst, both tame and lame. The sex is tame and the personal and ‘thriller’ plots are lame. Sequelitis has set in big time, doing major damage. The […]
Director Constantin Costa-Gavras’s 1989 thriller Music Box stars Jessica Lange as successful American attorney Ann Talbot, who is shocked and devastated when her loving, hardworking, patriotic Hungarian immigrant father Mike Laszlo (Armin Mueller-Stahl) is accused […]
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