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Writer-director Christopher Nolan retells the World War Two Dunkirk story at this weird and unhappy point in Britain’s history with Europe. Why? It’s a mystery. He’s never dabbled in history before, and he provides no clues […]
The 1935 American romance film The Dark Angel stars formidable Merle Oberon, Fredric March and Herbert Marshall as childhood friends who come of age in England in World War One. Richard Day won an Oscar […]
The 1926 French Foreign Legion adventure movie Beau Geste is an outstanding silent film of P C Wren’s tale of English brothers Beau, John and Digby Geste (Ronald Colman, Ralph Forbes and Neil Hamilton). Director […]
Don Cheadle is on scalding form as Paul Rusesabagina, the real-life manager of a Rwandan hotel that proved a safe haven for hundreds of refugees in 1994 as the Hutu tribe waged genocide on the […]
The two richly enjoyable. extravagant star performances of Joan Crawford and Walter Huston are the main recommendation for Lewis Milestone’s 1932 quick remake for the Somerset Maugham short story Miss Thompson (later retitled Rain), a silent […]
The divine woman just has to be Greta Garbo, who radiates allure in her fifth (silent) Hollywood role and first big star part as Marianne, a character obviously based on her fellow thespian, Sarah Bernhardt, […]
The eerie, eye-catching 1990 horror movie Jacob’s Ladder stars Tim Robbins as New York postal worker Jacob Singer, a divorced, traumatised Vietnam vet who is troubled by terrible nightmares. Director Adrian Lyne’s eerie, eye-catching 1990 […]