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Carole Lombard is uninspired in a rare flop movie for her. Director Mervyn LeRoy’s 1938 Warner Bros movie is an unexpectedly sad failure of a romantic comedy in which Fernand Gravey [Gravet] stars as a broke French […]
Director Robert Aldrich’s dark-toned 1969 lesbian drama features a splendid, career-best performance by Beryl Reid as June ‘George’ Buckridge, the ageing, bad-tempered, drunken lesbian actress whose imminent demise in a radio serial makes life hell […]
John Sayles won the first of his two Oscar nominations for Best Screenplay so far for Passion Fish (1992) and Lone Star (1996), though arguably Matewan (1987) is still probably Sayles’s best film to date and Piranha (story and screenplay) might be his […]
The New York power cut of 1965 – the Great Northeast Blackout – provides the backdrop for a jolly comedy vehicle for Doris Day, though director Hy Averback’s 1968 movie is a little uncinematic and […]
Valley of the Dolls charts the rise and fall in show business of three young hopefuls – Anne Welles (Barbara Parkins), Jennifer North (Sharon Tate) and Neely O’Hara (Patty Duke). Director Mark Robson’s high camp […]
Director Walter Lang’s 1946 drama is true to its title, and then some. It is an outrageously unabashed, very sentimental and shamefully mawkish tearjerker about a dying Broadway actress who adopts a child to keep […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder revels in the film noir period atmosphere he uses to tell his compelling life story of the once hugely successful actress Veronika Voss (Rosel Zech), who is now in the early Fifties […]