Co-writer/ director Thomas Kruithof’s really good and exciting French Seventies-style 2016 paranoia thriller is intensely acted, grippingly done and stylishly filmed. François Cluzet stars as the depressed, alcoholic, recently unemployed Duval, who is contacted by […]
Producer-director Ernst Lubitsch re-teams Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald after The Love Parade (1929) in this delightfully witty, deliciously daring 1932 Paramount romantic comedy with songs, based on Lothar Schmidt’s play Only a Dream. Chevalier plays […]
Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1934 MGM version of Franz Lehar’s famous operetta remakes a famous 1925 silent original The Merry Widow directed by Erich von Stroheim. It is an extravagant and effervescent delight, with the charming team […]
Returning director Howard Zieff’s 1994 comedy is the struggling and none too welcome sequel to My Girl (1991), with Anna Chlumsky, Dan Aykroyd, Jamie Lee Curtis and Richard Masur all returning from the original. It […]
Director Sidney Franklin’s 1929 pioneering sound-on-film movie version of Frederick Lonsdale’s famous play about a society jewel thief is ideally cast with Norma Shearer as the widowed Mrs Fay Cheyney and Basil Rathbone as the titled […]
Director Richard Boleslawski’s entertaining and well-crafted 1937 drama stars movie queen Joan Crawford, who scores another popular success as Mrs Fay Cheyney, a posh, rich American widow involved in intrigue and romance in England. She […]
Director Jack Lee’s 1956 film is a solid, sincere but under-powered version of Nevil Shute’s bestseller about the Japanese invasion of Malaya and the suffering of a group of British women rounded up and sent to […]
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