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Director George Cukor’s 1932 gleaming comedy treasure is a real vintage treat from the Thirties. It is based on a story by Adela Rogers St Johns, who came up with this idea first, but we […]
The great 1946 film noir crime thriller The Blue Dahlia stars Alan Ladd, Veronica Lake and William Bendix, and boasts Raymond Chandler’s first and only original screenplay. Chandler called her ‘Moronica’ Lake and Ladd a […]
Jack Nicholson directs an enjoyable, rollicking romantic comedy Western, with a delightfully quirky screenplay based on the story by John Herman Shaner and Al Ramrus. It’s the middle one of only three films Nicholson has directed, […]
The 1944 American film noir Farewell, My Lovely [Murder, My Sweet] stars Dick Powell in the first film to feature Raymond Chandler’s hard-boiled private detective Philip Marlowe. ‘A Sensational Triumph for the NEW Dick Powell.’ […]
The glorious 1927 American silent classic film Wings is an epic saga of friendship, love and war, with vintage melodrama, spectacular aviation and warfare stunts, and impressive star turns from Clara Bow, Charles ‘Buddy’ Rogers […]
There’s never a dull moment, but Filth is a dismaying and dispiriting experience. This is one heck of a scary movie, but in the wrong way. Two of my favourite actors James McAvoy and Jamie […]
Citizen Kane (1941) is the cinema’s Hamlet. All that has to be done to defend it against attacks from the philistines is to screen it as often as possible to the young, the curious, the […]