Back on the town, following On the Town (1949) that is, three wartime GI buddies, Ted (Gene Kelly), Doug (Dan Dailey) and Angie (Michael Kidd), meet up again at a New York bar on 11 October […]
Here’s Fred Astaire without his regular partner Ginger Rogers but instead cast with Vera-Ellen and Debbie Reynolds in director Richard Thorpe’s just above par-for-the-course 1950 MGM musical about those witty songwriters Bert Kalmar (Astaire) and […]
Director Charles Walters makes a 1952 MGM musical with Fred Astaire, Vera-Ellen, Majorie Main and Keenan Wynn. The spirits rise – but only to fall again, because this is a dull rendition of the Harry […]
The young Alain Delon cuts a glorious dash – or a couple of dashes – in twin roles as French brothers Julien and Guillaume de Saint-Preux, in the entertaining 1964 French swashbuckler film The Black […]
It is hard now to know from the movie exactly why, but writer-director Richard Brooks’s 1955 film exposé of teen trouble in the classrooms of New York, based on Evan Hunter’s novel, shocked the authorities […]
Tony Gilroy’s 2007 paranoia legal thriller Michael Clayton is intelligent, complex, engrossing and thrilling. George Clooney is ideal as a high-priced New York City law firm’s fixer. Tilda Swinton won an Oscar and Tom Wilkinson […]
Director William Nigh’s 1942 Black Dragons is a sinister and extremely weird wartime thriller, starring Bela Lugosi as brilliant scientist Dr Melcher, who is instructed by Japan’s fiendish Black Dragon Society to go to Japan on a […]
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