What will happen to a baby boy born in 1944, the last September of the war? Director Humphrey Jennings’s 1945 short film A Diary for Timothy is another of his Crown Film Unit classics. Director […]
Writer-director Humphrey Jennings’s wonderfully sensitive, realistic and moving 1943 documentary Fires Were Started about a London fire unit’s 24-hour day during the German air-raid bombings of winter 1940 elevates mundane detail to sublime significance and […]
Director Cyril Frankel’s crazily convoluted, murky 1966 thriller The Trygon Factor is based on a novel by Edgar Wallace (uncredited) and stars Stewart Granger as Scotland Yard inspector Superintendent Cooper-Smith investigating an oddball English family […]
Director Richard C Sarafian’s 1971 adventure Man in the Wilderness is a gory but involving great outdoors tale propelled with a rousing turn from Richard Harris as Zachary Bass, a beaver hunter marooned in the […]
Director Bernard Knowles’s 1947 adventure The Man Within [The Smugglers] is based on the novel by Graham Greene, and stars Michael Redgrave, Jean Kent, Joan Greenwood and Richard Attenborough. Little orphan Francis Andrews (Attenborough) solves […]
Charlie’s Angels (2019) is empty-headed adventure comedy hokum, with Kristen Stewart, Naomi Scott, Ella Balinska and Elizabeth Banks all pleasant presences and working hard enough but to little avail. They are chasing after some ludicrous […]
Lon Chaney Sr heads a fine cast as Alonzo, an armless knife thrower circus fakir, in director Tod Browning’s intriguing and engagingly weird, though less-famous 1927 MGM silent chiller The Unknown. Alonzo is literally a […]
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