MGM brings Maurice Leblanc’s famous gentleman crook to the screen for its first sound incarnation in 1932 with both Barrymore brothers in the popular pre-Code mystery film Arsène Lupin. Director Jack Conway has the privilege […]
Spider-Man: Far from Home is laid back, light hearted, and light weight. It mixes sentimentality with goofy teen laughs, sitcom soap opera and endless CGI action to polished, pleasant, painless effect. They have cleverly made […]
Jacques Becker’s polished 1957 French Technicolor crime film The Adventures of Arsène Lupin [Les Aventures d’Arsène Lupin] stars Robert Lamoureux as gentleman crook Arsène Lupin going about his thieving business in Paris just before the […]
Director Jacques Becker’s 1954 Eastmancolor French comedy fantasy romance film Ali Baba et les 40 Voleurs [Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves] stars lovely old Fernandel, who is inspired casting as Ali Baba. His rich oriental […]
Director Jacques Becker’s charming 1947 French black and white film Antoine et Antoinette [Antoine and Antoinette] is a lighthearted, well observed romantic comedy drama about an everyday young couple, printer Antoine (Roger Pigaut) and shopgirl […]
Director Jacques Becker’s witty 1951 black and white French comedy Edouard et Caroline [Edward and Caroline] stars Daniel Gélin and Anne Vernon as pianist Edouard and his wife Caroline, who fight as he gets ready […]
Director Jacques Becker’s 1943 black and white film Goupi Mains Rouges [It Happened at the Inn] is an extremely effective, deservedly admired French black comedy about the murder of an old woman in a French […]
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