Little Mandy Miller, aged eight, touches the heart as the afflicted girl at a special school for hearing-impaired children run by headmaster Dick Searle (Jack Hawkins), in director Alexander Mackendrick’s expert and appealing 1952 emotional […]
Director Alexander Mackendrick’s joyous, typically quirky 1951 Ealing Studios comedy stars Alec Guinness as an inventor called Sidney Stratton who discovers a miracle cloth fabric that can never get dirty or wear out. That’s the […]
Jean-Pierre Melville’s thrilling 1967 austere neo noir gangster movie Le Samouraï motors on Alain Delon’s enigmatic star turn and Henri Decaë’s stark Eastmancolor cinematography. ‘There is no solitude greater than a samurai’s, unless perhaps it […]
Director Jon Amiel’s classy 1993 mystery romantic drama is a splendidly sumptuous, poignant film. Richard Gere and Jodie Foster give unexpectedly sturdy performances in the kind of movie they’re not usually associated with – the […]
George Zucco stars as sinister Egyptian mystic Andoheb in the lusty 1940 horror film The Mummy’s Hand, the first sequel to Universal Pictures’ 1932 The Mummy. ‘The tomb of a thousand terrors!’ Director Christy Cabanne’s […]
In one of his best movies, Richard Gere blazes back on to the screen in 1990 as a bent cop in this brutal, electrifying neo noir police thriller. It is commandingly directed in America by […]
Writer-director Wes Craven’s 1977 horror movie is a great, in-your-face, visceral shocker which established his international reputation. In the credible horror story, a tribe of deformed, inter-bred crazed cannibals pick off people on holiday, whose car […]
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