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Writer-producer-director Spike Lee goes for an abrupt change of pace with this arty and sentimental 1990 movie tale about the life of New York trumpet player and bandleader Bleek Gilliam (impeccably played by Denzel Washington). He forms […]
Co-writer/ director Moshe Mizrahi’s simple, easy-going, slightly sudsy 1986 romantic movie stars Tom Hanks as David, an eager American World War Two wartime flier who joins the RAF and is recovering in Jerusalem after a leg […]
Gregory Peck is excellent in one of his five Best Actor Oscar nominated performances in director John M Stahl’s 1944 drama. It was nominated for four Oscars, but there were no wins. Running at 137 […]
Another year, another brilliant film from writer-director Mike Leigh. It showcases a heartrending performance from Lesley Manville as Mary, a sad, lonely and unstable middle-aged woman, frozen out of friendship by an apparently caring, but […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s 1950 biographical music drama stars Kirk Douglas as American jazz cornetist Rick Martin. Warner Bros’ fictionalised biopic is based on the life of all-time jazz great Bix Beiderbecke (March 10, 1903 – August […]
The 1965 Masculin Féminin is one of the Sixties masterworks of French New Wave icon Jean-Luc Godard, who employs his once-friend François Truffaut’s star Jean-Pierre Léaud as his hero Paul. Paul is a member of […]
Director Todd Haynes’s beautiful, magical and enchanting 2017 family mystery drama is a glorious art work as well as a lovely entertainment. In the Seventies, a boy called Ben (Oakes Fegley) is left deaf after […]