Going against conventional Hollywood wisdom, MGM’s trail-blazing multi-story film Grand Hotel (1932) was one of the first all-star vehicles. It was the Oscar winner for Best Picture and became one of the highest grossing pictures. […]
Sandra Bullock is likeable and appealing as housewife Birdee Calvert, who, after hearing on TV that her hubby is having an affair with her best friend Connie (Rosanna Arquette), moves back with her daughter Bernice […]
Director Mark Herman’s funny-in-places 2003 comedy stars Colin Firth as sad, lovelorn British artist Colin Ware who, after being dumped by his fiancée in the UK, goes to start over in the USA where he holes up in […]
Best known nowadays, if at all, for the excerpt of it seen in her 1950 comeback movie triumph Sunset Blvd., Queen Kelly (1929) is Gloria Swanson’s famous silent film. Alas, it ended up in an […]
Rouben Mamoulian’s lush and glossily romantic 1933 film Queen Christina is a jewel in the crown of Greta Garbo, then reigning Queen of Hollywood. ‘I’m tired of being a symbol, Chancellor. I long to […]
From writer- director Mark Herman, the maker of Brassed Off and Little Voice, comes this pleasant and watchable 2000 British footie movie that stumbles just like previous attempts such as Escape to Victory, Best and […]
Seizing her chance to overact for America, Meryl Streep triumphs as The Wicked Witch in director Rob Marshall’s enormously entertaining, glorious looking, highly imaginative and quite magical movie version of the legendary Stephen Sondheim stage show. […]
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