Ten years on in 1941, director Walter Forde gets to remake his own great 1931 comedy movie success The Ghost Train, based on playwright Arnold Ridley’s vintage stage play, now polished up as a vehicle […]
MGM’s spectacular 1941 musical drama is engaging, opulently made and lavishly cast. It follows the fortunes of three plucky gals (Judy Garland, Hedy Lamarr and Lana Turner), all charming, idiosyncratic beauties determined to aim for […]
Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer reunite from Ziegfeld Follies (1945) for more graceful dancing, filmed with flair and lavishness by MGM in glorious Technicolor. With Frank Morgan as Victor Trout, Leon Ames as Mr Candle, and Mildred Natwick […]
MGM’s exhilarating, eye-smackingly gaudy 1945 Technicolor film imitation of one of US producer Florenz Ziegfeld’s stage revues is a bright, spangly, brilliantly pretty curate’s egg of a movie. Alas it is weighed down with cobwebby […]
Director George Roy Hill’s charming 1967 musical Thoroughly Modern Millie is a perfect vehicle for the thoroughly captivating Julie Andrews as the Twenties flapper Millie Dillmount. She discovers a new real chum in a sweet, innocent, […]
Writer-director David Cronenberg’s startling Canadian 1981 futuristic sci-fi action horror thriller basically tells a good versus evil battle story, but with an exploding head refreshing the mix. It was a special effects-driven eye-opener back in […]
Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]
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