Director Douglas Sirk stars Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray and Joan Bennett in his rich and rather splendid 1956 remake of a melodrama previously filmed in 1934 with Frank Morgan and Binnie Barnes. Toy manufacturer Clifford […]
Director Roy Rowland’s surprisingly limp, sluggish and over-familiar 1953 Western reunites Double Indemnity stars Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray for this Niven Busch story about a cattle rustler villain, Wes Anderson (MacMurray), intent on changing […]
Director Jack Donohue’s 1961 Walt Disney Productions family fantasy comedy movie is quite cute, sweet and pleasant enough, and has its moments. But, certainly by comparison, it is a largely ineffectual remake of the 1934 Stan Laurel and Laurel Hardy […]
Directors Gus Meins and Charles Rogers’s delightful 1934 classic musical comedy Babes in Toyland [March of the Wooden Soldiers] provides ideal work for stars Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. They sparkle as Santa Claus’s assistants […]
Ghost in the Shell is smart, smooth and slick, visually stylish and impressive, an interesting attempt at an arty blockbuster. But it is also a bit flat and one-note, as well as derivative, with many […]
Michael Pitt plays another of his twisted and troubled characters as Paul in director Michael Haneke’s alienating shot-by-shot English-language remake of his Austrian original Funny Games (1997). Pitt and Brady Corbet play a couple of young, articulate, white-gloved psychos, […]
Albert Finney repeats his London stage performance as ageing Chicago gangster Harold, who is mixed up with two weird brothers Treat and Philip (Matthew Modine and Kevin Anderson), in director Alan J Pakula’s 1987 riveting […]
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