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Co-writer/ director Clare Peploe’s odd 1995 comedy film reworking of a vintage 1944 thriller novel by expert James Hadley Chase called Miss Shumway Waves a Wand is an extremely well crafted, interesting movie but a bit of […]
Jerry Morgan: ‘You know, I don’t think I’m crazy. I think I’m a little bit peculiar, but that’s not crazy.’ Danny Kaye is enjoyably indulged by the talented Norman Panama and Melvin Frank writer-producer-director team […]
Warner Bros’ 1946 romantic biographical drama film Devotion stars Ida Lupino as Emily Brontë, Olivia de Havilland as Charlotte Brontë, Nancy Coleman as Anne Brontë, and Arthur Kennedy as Branwell Brontë. Director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1946 […]
Director Don Siegel’s 1980 penultimate movie stars Burt Reynolds as twinkling, sophisticated jewel thief Jack Rhodes, with one eye on the jewels and the other on the ladies. Reynolds is rightly compared to Cary Grant, […]
Jean Negulesco knows how to make the double Oscar-winning 1954 romantic drama film Three Coins in the Fountain sweet and sentimental, but Clifton Webb and Dorothy McGuire are able to inject a bit of acid. […]
F Scott Fitzgerald gains his only scriptwriter credit during his stay at MGM (though he also worked on A Yank at Oxford and The Women) for his adaptation (along with Edward E Paramore Jr) of […]
Director Ben Stiller’s 1994 directorial debut Reality Bites is a genial, youth-oriented romantic comedy drama that is pleasant and entertaining even if it is written with perhaps not quite enough reality or bite. Winona Ryder […]