Director Charles Jarrott’s 1972 musical Lost Horizon was a British Royal Command Performance film and has a fine cast, but remaking Frank Capra’s 1937 classic Lost Horizon about an idyllic life in a Tibetan valley […]
Queen Christina: ‘I, Christina, Sovereign of Sweden, do hereby abdicate my throne.’ ‘She shook the Vatican like an earthquake. Shocking whispers had preceded her. Debauchery. Unspeakable acts. A reign of scandal… And now she had […]
Mulholland Falls (1996) is a great-looking, fine neo noir crime thriller with a fine cast to make it work. Nick Nolte stars as Max Hoover, with Melanie Griffith, Chris Penn, Bruce Dern, John Malkovich, Chazz […]
Director Irving Cummings’s 1935 film is Curly Top, and, with that title at that time, who else could it be but Shirley Temple? The moppet is winsome in this mild reworking of Jean Webster’s novel […]
Director Anthony Harvey’s 1979 film Players is an old-hat, ultra-soapy romantic drama about crossed hearts and tennis racquets. It is smoothly enough done, though, with the athletic Dean Paul Martin convincing looking and giving an […]
Director Anthony Harvey’s 1979 impressive oddity Eagle’s Wing is a British-made allegorical Western, with an outstanding cast, about a trapper, Pike (Martin Sheen), and a Kiowa Indian brave, White Bull (Sam Waterston), obsessively fighting over […]
Julia Roberts at the height of her Pretty Woman popularity misses the target as Hilary O’Neil, a private nurse house-help for dying 20-something Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott), a young man suffering from blood cancer. She […]
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