Carol Reed’s lavish, lovely looking 1965 biographical historical drama film The Agony and the Ecstasy is based on part of Irving Stone’s 1961 doorstopper novel, and stars Charlton Heston as Michelangelo and Rex Harrison as the […]
Director Marcel Varnel’s 1942 Much Too Shy stars naughty but nice (and much too shy) George Formby as amateur artist George Andy, the hopeless handyman in trouble when his art-study-course portraits of ladies are tampered […]
‘She was abused and violated. It will never happen again!’ A timid, mute Manhattan woman called Thana (Zoë Lund) gets raped twice after coming home from work, then dresses suggestively, cruises the streets and wreaks […]
Writer-director Kenneth Branagh again brings William Shakespeare to mainstream audiences with his 1993 hit adaptation of hit Much Ado About Nothing. It is a very jovial romp through Shakespeare’s attractive lightweight romance, filmed with much […]
Director Jean Negulesco’s 1950 British film The Mudlark stars the American actress Irene Dunne, who was a shock choice as Queen Victoria, but she is fine, emoting away in her cotton-wool cheeks and rubber cladding. […]
Writer-director Renato Castellani’s 1954 UK/Italy film Romeo and Juliet [Giulietta e Romeo] stars Laurence Harvey and Susan Shentall as William Shakespeare’s star-crossed lovers. Shakespeare’s play is adapted for the screen by Castellani. After a shaky […]
Director Carol Reed’s 1963 film The Running Man is a sedate and therefore undervalued Sixties thriller about English pilot scoundrel Rex Black (Laurence Harvey) faking his own death in a glider crash to defraud the […]
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