Emily Brontë: ‘I spit on love and all its vanity’. Director André Techiné’s 1979 biographical costume drama Les Soeurs Brontë [The Brontë Sisters] stars a most formidable French acting talent line-up in Isabelle Adjani, Isabelle […]
‘PADEREWSKI in his only screen appearance’ When plane-crash survivors gather together in the home of a Swedish noblewoman, the Baroness Lindenborg (Marie Tempest), they are serenaded by famous classical pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski (as himself), whose […]
‘HE PUTS A HALFBACK INTO ORBIT! HE’S THE LAFF OF THE PARTY! HE BLOWS UP A STORM!’ Director Robert Stevenson’s 1963 comedy Son of Flubber brings Fred MacMurray is happily back as Professor Ned Brainard […]
Director Andrew Davis’s 1988 film Above the Law [Nico] stars Aikido expert Steven Seagal in his film debut as Nico Toscani, a tough renegade Chicago cop, trained in martial arts and combat in Vietnam, who […]
The 1977 British TV classic Abigail’s Party is a savagely funny BBC comedy drama devised and directed by Mike Leigh. This wicked attack on lower-middle-class manners is particularly memorable for Alison Steadman’s formidable portrayal of […]
Director Ray Enright’s 1945 RKO Radio Pictures black and white romantic drama China Sky, based on a novel by Pearl S Buck, is a commonplace love-triangle yarn that soon overplays its hand and abandons its […]
‘Eddie Fisher, Debbie Reynolds. Their first movie together!’ Director Norman Taurog’s 1956 Technicolor RKO-Scope film Bundle of Joy is a musical reworking for Ginger Rogers’s 1939 comedy Bachelor Mother, with Debbie Reynolds playing the shop […]
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