‘Kisses and champagne behind the Iron Curtain.’ Director Don Siegel’s 1952 black and white film No Time for Flowers is a Ninotchka or Comrade X-style comedy, pleasant enough but not as good as either of them. László […]
Director Peter Jackson’s magnificent and beautiful World War One documentary They Shall Not Grow Old (2018) is uniquely informative, evocative, moving and heart-rending, as well as a brilliant technical achievement in its incredible 3D colour […]
Director Jack Arnold’s 1957 CinemaScope and black and white Western film Man in the Shadow [Pay the Devil] stars the odd couple of Jeff Chandler and Orson Welles, along with Colleen Miller. It was made […]
So it turns out that Mary Poppins can turn back time, and that’s what Disney can do too in this out-of-its-time sequel to Mary Poppins. Mary Poppins Returns is, as the title implies, supposed to […]
Alec Guinness both plays the dedicated non-conformist London artist hero Gulley Jimson seeking his artistic ideal and writes the screenplay of director Ronald Neame’s lifeless, disappointing 1958 British film of Joyce Cary’s 1944 novel The Horse’s […]
In the middle of a long run of comedy hits, Alec Guinness seems out of his territory in director Brian Desmond Hurst’s 1953 Malta Story, a dully conventional war picture about a British flight lieutenant […]
Director Michael Bay and star Mark Wahlberg having called time’s up after Transformers: The Last Knight (2017), the rebooted Bumblebee (2018) is a slick but tepid attempt to prolong the Transformers franchise past its sell-by date. As dithering teen […]
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