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Director Charles Walters’s 1956 movie is a classy, pleasurable, richly enjoyable musical remake of The Philadelphia Story (1940). The sharply acidic social romantic comedy of the original is reworked by MGM as a smooth, glossy and ultra-plush […]
Director George Cukor’s 1940 ultra-smart romantic comedy film The Philadelphia Story is one of Hollywood’s most glorious, with three of its all-time great stars at their most effortless, alluring, dazzling best. The movie represents the […]
Adam Sandler of all people is miscast as a simple, honest pizza-parlour owner, Longfellow Deeds, who moves to the big city to inherit $40billion and meets greedy opportunists after his money. There’s an ugly rash […]
Frank Capra won his second Best Director Oscar for one of his most beloved movies, the 1936 Mr Deeds Goes to Town. Gary Cooper shines brilliantly as the great American everyman Longfellow Deeds. Director Frank […]
Alan J Pakula’s 1974 political paranoia conspiracy thriller film The Parallax View is brilliantly tense, taut and exciting. It’s a scorching nail-biter. Warren Beatty stars as an ambitious reporter who investigates a presidential candidate’s murder. […]
Director Mimi Leder’s feisty, old-style apocalyptic 1998 disaster movie stars Elijah Wood as a keen young amateur astrologer who spots an unidentified star, and soon it is all stations red alert as a massive comet […]
Director Fritz Lang’s 1940 follow-up to 1939’s huge hit Jesse James is at least the equal of a marvellous original. Once more, the film was universally considered historically inaccurate but again was a commercial success. […]