François Truffaut’s 1968 salute to Alfred Hitchcock, the French thriller film The Bride Wore Black, is a richly enjoyable, quirky entertainment. Jeanne Moreau is on great form as a widow who sets out to kill […]
Co-writer/director François Truffaut’s 1968 Baisers Volés (Stolen Kisses) is the very welcome third episode in Truffaut’s Antoine Doinel series. The 25-year-old Jean-Pierre Léaud back again as Truffaut’s alter ego in the further adventures of the […]
Producer/co-writer/director King Vidor’s 1928 silent classic stars James Murray, who gives an exceptional performance as John Sims, an ordinary, everyman clerk with a small job in the big city. Eleanor Boardman is stupendous, too, as Mary […]
Writer-director Roger Kumble’s 2000 prequel to his 1999 erotic thriller hit is a shade less good, but it is still provocative, amusing, stylish and properly hard-hearted. Set a few years before the original, it follows […]
All-American actor Charlton Heston (born plain John Carter) dons the British sleuth deerstalker and gets to play Sherlock Holmes for a surprisingly successful Sir Arthur Conan Doyle outing. It is tensely and atmospherically directed by […]
Arthur Miller’s famous 1952 drama about a community torn apart by mass hysteria has lost none of its relevance in 1996. The handsome looking production is capably helmed by British director Nicholas Hytner (maker of […]
Lily Collins and Sam Claflin star as Rosie and Alex, who have been best friends since they were five. So they couldn’t possibly be a right fit in love for one another, could they? Christian Cooke also […]
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