Barry Ward stars as real-life Irish communist political activist Jimmy Gralton, who is deported from Ireland during the country’s ‘Red Scare’ of the 1930s. Ward is excellent but Jim Norton is even better as his nemesis, Father Sheridan, […]
Walt Disney remakes its 1959 animated film Sleeping Beauty as a lively 3D live action adventure that’s aimed more at teens than tots who’d find it too scary. There’s nothing scarier in it than Angelina […]
Director Jane Campion’s 1996 period drama literary adaptation is a chilly but excellent version of the Henry James novel, set in 1870s England. Everything about it is extremely plush, subtle, expert and just right. Nicole […]
Who’s afraid of Virginia Woolf? Well, not Vanessa Redgrave, who in 1997 at long last finds a part worthy of her again as Mrs Clarissa Dalloway, a middle-aged English socialite reflecting on her safe, comfortable […]
Don Siegel’s 1971 police thriller film Dirty Harry is arguably Clint Eastwood’s most famous movie, and certainly one of his best films. Lalo Schifrin contributes one of his finest scores. ‘I know what you’re thinking. […]
Director Howard Hawks’s 1939 high-flying classic stars Cary Grant as Geoff Carter, a pilot and the manager of Barranca Airways, a tatty airmail and freight service working out of Ecuador. The small, barely solvent air […]
George Cukor’s 1935 romantic comedy adventure film Sylvia Scarlett stars Katharine Hepburn the title role of a female con artist who disguises herself as a boy to escape the police. Director George Cukor’s 1935 romantic […]
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