Anna Magnani stars as Mamma Maddalena Cecconi, who fights other mothers to get her pretty child Maria (Tina Apicella) into a new movie being made at Cinecittà, in co-writer/ director Luchino Visconti’s 1951 Italian neo-realist […]
Three very good actors – Emma Thompson, Brendan Gleeson, Daniel Brühl – are stranded through miscasting and poor writing in co-writer/ director Vincent Perez’s earnest and well-meaning World War Two wartime drama Alone in Berlin. It is based on the […]
Producer-director Frank Lloyd’s 1940 Columbia Pictures epic historical romantic drama is set during the American War of Independence. It is astonishing that an American film studio would set about to attack the British people at […]
Dee Wallace stars as telly newshound Karen White who recuperates in the wrong place after a rabid attack in a porn cinema – at a Californian hippy community, where of course they are all howling […]
Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1954 interesting but misfiring would-be comedy is set in a town symbolically called Progress, Arkansas, where a beautiful millionairess called Corby Lane (Jean Simmons) goes home to the place she was brought […]
The dashingly handsome but poor young piano instructor/ composer Claude (Gérard Philipe) takes refuge in transferring memories of the women he meets into reveries of close encounters with gorgeous ladies in historical settings in writer-director […]
Yul Brynner stars as Solomon but the voluptuous Gina Lollobrigida and the waspish George Sanders are much more fun as Sheba and Adonijah. The Old Testament according to director King Vidor, using as his text […]
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