Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic film Bringing Up Baby is the quintessential 30s screwball comedy, providing a perfect zany showcase for its all-time great stars Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1938 classic film […]
Director George Cukor’s 1940 ultra-smart romantic comedy film The Philadelphia Story is one of Hollywood’s most glorious, with three of its all-time great stars at their most effortless, alluring, dazzling best. The movie represents the […]
Ideally cast, screwball comedy legends Cary Grant and Myrna Loy prove a dream team here in 1948, giving among their most delicious ever screen performances as Jim and Muriel Blandings. They’re a couple of New York-dwelling […]
Adam Sandler of all people is miscast as a simple, honest pizza-parlour owner, Longfellow Deeds, who moves to the big city to inherit $40billion and meets greedy opportunists after his money. There’s an ugly rash […]
Frank Capra won his second Best Director Oscar for one of his most beloved movies, the 1936 Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Gary Cooper shines brilliantly as the great American everyman Longfellow Deeds. Director Frank […]
Legendary director Frank Capra’s perfectly honed, much-loved 1939 classic Mr Smith Goes to Washington is a politically-minded comedy drama follow-up to his triumphant 1936 Gary Cooper movie Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Mr Smith centres […]
Director Sam Raimi’s entertaining, if patchy, very violent 1995 black-comedy Western spoofs the style and themes of Sergio Leone’s spaghetti Westerns. It stars Sharon Stone as you never saw her before as Ellen, a leather-clad […]
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