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It is not as drama that director Alan Crosland’s 1927 Al Jolson musical about a Jewish Cantor’s son who prefers showbiz to the approval of his father is remembered. Nor is it for the performances […]
The endearing Basil Radford and Naunton Wayne return for the third time in their quintessential Englishmen abroad guise as cricket-mad Charters and Caldicott (after The Lady Vanishes and Night Train to Munich) in director John […]
Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1993 romantic comedy drama, with country music and a love triangle, is the 13th and last completed film of River Phoenix before his untimely death at the age of only 23. Phoenix plays […]
One of the key French New Wave (Nouvelle Vague) movies of the early Sixties, writer-director Agnés Varda’s essential 1962 film drama Cleo from 5 to 7 1962 [Cléo de 5 à 7] – or portrait […]
Marlene Dietrich oozes sensational allure in her American debut as the pansexual mystery heroine in the 1930 pre-Code romantic drama film Morocco. Gary Cooper and Adolphe Menjou have to work hard to attract any attention. […]
Director Liza Johnson’s engaging and engrossing 2016 shaggy dog story is the previously untold true one of the peculiar meeting between Elvis Presley and US President Richard Nixon on the morning of 21 December 1970. Only in America! The screenplay by Joey Sagal, […]
Director Val Guest’s 1959 British black and white musical drama Expresso Bongo is a fascinating period piece, and snapshot of a long-ago time and place. It is far more fragrant of its era than the Eighties homage movie […]