Director Ralph Thomas’s amiable 1954 Technicolor fantasy comedy Mad about Men again stars Glynis Johns, who revisits her mermaid tale for this sequel to 1948’s hit Miranda, in which flirty mermaid Miranda and stuffy gymnastics teacher […]
Director Ken Annakin’s 1947 British black and white light comedy fantasy film Miranda stars Glynis Johns, who makes a very fetching mermaid called Miranda Trewella, who talks young married physician Dr Paul Martin (Griffith Jones), […]
Director Norman Taurog’s 1938 Mad about Music stars Deanna Durbin as Gloria Harkinson, the sweet young girl who enlists a visiting nice chap English composer Richard Todd (Herbert Marshall) to play her pop when she is left […]
Co-writer/ director Bong Joon Ho’s Cannes Palme d’Or and triple Oscar winner Parasite [Gisaengchung] (2019) is fascinating, provocative and thought provoking in a way that is not normal for a thriller. But then Parasite is […]
Director Charles Walters’s pleasing 1960 MGM Metrocolor comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies pleasantly and profitably pairs Doris Day with David Niven. Jean Kerr’s bestselling book about her life with theatre critic Walter Kerr, who […]
Horror expert Val Lewton unexpectedly produced a light-as-air romantic comedy as his last film in which Deborah Kerr plays Alison Kirbe of London, who is pursued aboard ship to the United States by three apparently […]
Producer-director Leo McCarey’s 1952 drama My Son John is one of the most glaring examples of 50s Hollywood’s rabid anti-communist attitudes with John Jefferson (Robert Walker) ostracised by his all-American family when he returns home […]
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