Producer-director George Melford’s rousing 1921 vehicle for great silent-movie star Rudolph Valentino provides one of his finest, superstar-making showcases. The Sheik cemented his reputation as the greatest screen lover of them all. Even now, it is […]
One of Noël Coward’s Tonight at 8:30 collection of 10 short plays (like Still Life that became Brief Encounter) looks thin and exposed in director Terence Fisher’s poorly directed, sluggish 1950 screen version. It fails […]
Steven Spielberg’s solidly crafted 2011 British-American war drama War Horse is a guaranteed heart-tugger, with a decent screenplay by Lee Hall and Richard Curtis adapting Michael Morpurgo’s 1982 children’s novel set around World War One. […]
Incredibly dreadful 1968 Sci-Fi horror yarn, with Wendell Corey (as the investigating FBI agent Holman) and John Carradine (as the usual crazed doctor Dr DeMarco, who is making the Astro-Zombies) unfairly embarrassed. DeMarco is fired […]
Michael Winterbottom’s 1999 drama of working-class Londoners Bill (Jack Shepherd) and Eileen (Kika Markham) and their three lonely grown-up daughters is a typically intense, effective and gloomy tale. They are cafe waitress Nadia, (Gina McKee ) […]
Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]
Director James Whale’s 1936 movie is the superb second version of the classic Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical, based on Edna Ferber’s novel about the lives and loves of Mississippi river folk at the turn-of-the-last-century. […]
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