Directors Basil Dearden and Alberto Cavalcanti’s haunting 1944 British black and white fantasy mystery drama The Halfway House stars Mervyn Johns and his real-life daughter Glynis Johns as an inn-keeper (Rhys) and his daughter (Gwyneth) […]
Director John Farrow’s 1959 swashbuckling, naval history adventure movie John Paul Jones stars Robert Stack as the Scottish adventurer and American Revolutionary War naval hero, based on the story Nor’wester by Clements Ripley. He makes it […]
Director Basil Dearden’s silly 1960 British black and white satirical comedy Man in the Moon tackles the then topical subject of sending the first astronaut into space. It is occasionally amusing, but mostly it is […]
Co-writer/ director Nadine Labaki’s Capernaum [Capharnaüm] [Chaos] (2018) is a well deserved Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film of the Year for Lebanon. Zain Al Rafeea gives a brilliant little performance as Zain, a […]
Director Stuart Cooper’s 1977 Canadian neo noir thriller The Disappearance is a sleekly made and intriguing upmarket mystery, based on Derek Marlowe’s novel Echoes of Celandine, starring Donald Sutherland as a contract killer called Jay […]
Alexander Korda’s 1934 British romantic comedy drama film The Private Life of Don Juan stars Douglas Fairbanks Sr in his final role as an aging Don Juan, along with Merle Oberon, Binnie Barnes, Joan Gardner, Gina […]
Writer-director Anthony Simmons’s fresh and poignant 1965 British bitter-sweet drama Four in the Morning stars Ann Lynn, Judi Dench, Norman Rodway, Brian Phelan and Joe Melia. An excellent cast of mostly British theatre players bring […]
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