‘A Plague Infested Train Speeds Across Europe To Certain Death At Cassandra Crossing.’ Sounds fun, doesn’t it? Somehow producers Lee Grade and Carlo Ponti persuaded a large number of first-rate actors to jump aboard a […]
Co-writer/ producer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1961 On the Double provides a witty title for a witty Danny Kaye comedy in which he plays Private First Class Ernie Williams, an American GI who specialises in impersonations […]
Co-writer/ director Panos Cosmatos’s deranged 1983-set 2018 horror thriller Mandy stars Nicolas Cage and Andrea Riseborough as bearded lumberjack Red and his fantasy paperback-reading artist girlfriend Mandy, who live happily in a secluded cabin in the […]
Director Ewald André Dupont’s 1925 Variety [aka Varieté, or Jealousy or Vaudeville] is an exciting German classic silent melodrama of fierily aroused passion, with an impressive silent movie performance by Emil Jannings as angry, betrayed trapeze artist […]
A Star Is Born (2018) is a capable piece of film-making and some of it is entertaining but a lot of it is pretty dull, drippy and dreary, surprisingly with Lady Gaga (aka Stefani Germanotta) marginally […]
Emil Jannings and William Powell star in the 1928 Oscar-winning silent classic The Last Command as two men who used to be political as well as personal adversaries in revolutionary Russia, who are forced by international politics […]
Director Jack Conway’s 1926 MGM silent drama Brown of Harvard stars William Haines, Jack Pickford and Mary Brian and is based on the hit 1906 Broadway play by Rida Johnson Young, who also co-wrote the popular music for the play with Melvin Ellis. Haines does well […]
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