Director Ken Annakin assembles a friendly all-star cast for the 1979 adventure The Fifth Musketeer [Behind the Iron Mask], his spectacular-looking, but turgidly scripted remake of Alexandre Dumas Père’s classic novel The Vicomte of Bragelonne: […]
Louis Hayward, who had been The Man in the Iron Mask (that is Prince Philippe of Gascony, the nice twin brother of despotic French King Louis XIV) in the 1939 film, this time stars as […]
You would think that a film with Julia Roberts, Brad Pitt, David Hyde Pierce, David Duchovny, Catherine Keener, Mary McCormack and Blair Underwood, directed by Steven (Ocean’s Eleven) Soderbergh, would be a must. But Steven […]
Director Michael Engler’s 2019 drama Downton Abbey is a smooth, amusing and entertaining, but cliched, clunky, corny, cosy and choppy spinoff from the Downton Abbey TV show that ran six seasons and 52 episodes from […]
‘The minx in mink with a yen for men!’ Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1944 Lady in the Dark stars Ginger Rogers as a depressed magazine editor career woman Liza Elliott, who suffers endless headaches and daydreams, […]
Co-writer/ director John Farrow’s 1939 crime drama Full Confession stars Victor McLaglen as Pat McGinnis, who agonises as another man, Michael O’Keefe (Barry Fitzgerald), is sentenced on circumstantial evidence to die in the electric chair […]
Writer-director Yu Yang [Jiaozi]’s striking 2019 Chinese animated fantasy adventure Ne Zha [Nezha zhi motong jiangshi] is bright, lively, entertaining, sometimes impressive and sometimes just amiably silly. Some of the animation design looks very good […]
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