Director Fred C Newmeyer’s 1922 Grandma’s Boy stars Harold Lloyd (for his first feature), who shines in his silent-comedy tale of grandma’s boy, a hopeless coward and country bumpkin (Lloyd, of course) whose grandpa (also […]
Director René Clair’s enchanting, exquisitely handled pre-World War One romantic comedy-drama Les Grandes Manoeuvres [Summer Manoeuvres] (1955), haunted with tragic emotions, is set in a French provincial garrison town. There Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne […]
The 1967 Italian heist thriller film Grand Slam [Ad Ogni Costo] stars Edward G Robinson as a mild-mannered American teacher, who retires and assembles a team of international crooks to pull off a $10 million […]
The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally dull and tame ghost story film that has little going for it apart from Daniel Radcliffe’s strong central performance. The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally […]
Tommy Lee Jones scores as baseball’s greatest hitter, the game’s most feared and hated player, in writer-director Ron Shelton’s compelling 1995 sports biopic Cobb, based on the article and book by Al Stump. All-time baseball […]
The magnificent Rudolph Valentino stars in director Joseph Henabery’s 1925 silent classic drama Cobra as a down-at-heel Italian marquis, Count Rodrigo Torriani, who decides to ‘collect’ women (the cobras of the title), who fascinate him, […]
Director Werner Herzog reunites with his Aguirre, Wrath of God star Klaus Kinski for Cobra Verde in 1988 as an infamous Brazilian bandit, Francisco Manoel da Silva, sent to exploit slaves in West Africa during […]
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