This now restored 25-minute silent comedy short from 1917 is among writer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s best work, still clever, touching and above all funny after 100 years. He’s a poor new arrival to America, who endures hardships […]
Director Rob Walker’s violent 2000 crime thriller focuses on the story of a Brighton hit man who is asked to run an old friend’s casino. But first he must carry out one last contract killing. […]
Writer-producer-director-star Charles Chaplin’s 1928 silent movie is both funny and delightful. Once again he takes on his familiar persona as the Tramp, hiding out from the police in a circus, where he soon falls for […]
Fired up director John Frankenheimer’s 1964 paranoia conspiracy thriller simmers with tension and delivers edge-of-the-seat suspense in a story that is all about right-wing general James Mattoon Scott (Burt Lancaster)’s coup with other military leaders […]
Director Joseph Losey’s 1964 film stars Tom Courtenay as Private Hamp, a slightly dim, uncomprehending First World War soldier who walks shell shocked away from the rat-infested Passchendaele trenches and is arrested for desertion. [Spoiler […]
Director Billy Wilder delivers a typically darkly comic adaptation of Donald Bevan’s and Edmund Trzcinski’s Broadway stage play about American airmen’s life in a POW camp in Germany in 1944 towards the end of World […]
Director Abderrahmane Sissako’s Timbuktu is important, worthy, really well made, and visually extremely striking. But it’s a deeply depressing and disturbing story, and quite difficult to take and hard going. Its very considerable worth was noted […]
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