Directors Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez and Quentin Tarantino’s neo noir crime thriller Sin City (2005) is eye-poppingly imaginative and just plain brilliant. A graphic novel sprung to vivid life on the screen, it needs careful […]
Director Elliott Nugent’s 1935 black and white romantic comedy drama Splendor is a forgotten but not negligible yarn from the Samuel Goldwyn Company studios about Brighton Lorrimore (Joel McCrea) upsetting his fraught, cash-strapped family, especially […]
That noble director of war movies Lewis Milestone gave us All Quiet On The Western Front, A Walk In The Sun, Halls of Montezuma and also this World War Two look at the plight of […]
The 1945 black and white film noir thriller The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry is strangely relocated to contemporary New Hampshire, and features George Sanders as amiable middle-aged bachelor Harry Quincey. Thomas Job’s 1942 Broadway […]
Michel Piccoli won the Silver Bear in Berlin for Best Actor in co-writer/ director Pierre Granier-Deferre’s nimbly acted, craftily written 1981 French social satire drama Strange Affair [Une étrange affaire] in 1982 and Natalie Baye […]
Director Lewis Milestone’s 1943 romantic wartime drama The North Star is an embarrassing, unreal pro-Soviet propaganda piece on behalf of the post-German invasion American-Russian alliance, about Nazis invading a Russian farming community in the Ukraine […]
‘Just About the Most Wonderful Love Story Ever Filmed!’ Director Irving Reis’s 1948 film Enchantment is a fairly enchanting, well-crafted, plushly produced little romantic melodrama, based on Rumer Godden’s novel Take Three Tenses, about a […]
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