Director Billy Wilder’s 1966 comedy gem The Fortune Cookie [Meet Whiplash Willie] is one of the marvellous teamings of the irreplaceable odd couple Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau, finding them a pair of their best […]
Greta Garbo received her third Best Actress nomination for the grand 1936 American romantic tragedy film Camille at the 10th Academy Awards. Director George Cukor’s 1936 vintage tragic romance movie Camille stars Greta Garbo, perfectly cast and at […]
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 […]
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