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Producer/co-writer/director Frank Tashlin puts his comic-strip style onto this enjoyable 1956 musical satirical farce. Edmond O’Brien plays Fats Murdock, a gangster who takes on decrepit, down-at-heel PR agent Tom Miller (Tom Ewell) to publicise his sexy, blonde bombshell, bimbo girlfriend […]
The 1930 British thriller film Murder! is a rare whodunit from Alfred Hitchcock, who experiments with a daring psycho-sexual theme and improvised dialogue, with actors talking while a 30-piece orchestra played live on the set. […]
Hard Times with Dickens. Ralph Fiennes directs himself as Charles Dickens, who at the height of his career meets and falls for a younger woman, Ellen ‘Nelly’ Ternan (Felicity Jones), who becomes his secret mistress up […]
Philip Seymour Hoffman gives a tour-de-force as Caden Cotard, a terminally ill theatre director who struggles with his work and his women. Offered a grant, he decides to turn his life into art, and to […]
Tending to let his single eyebrow do most of the acting for him, Josh Hartnett plays Matthew, a young Chicago advertising executive who is about to marry his boss’s daughter when he sees his long-lost love […]
Federico Fellini’s legendary seventh solo film from 1963 focuses on the trials and tribulations of film-making. With six previous movies and three halves, he calls it 8½. Marcello Mastroianni, Anouk Aimée, Claudia Cardinale and Sandra […]
This glittering old-style comedy from an on-form writer-director Woody Allen dazzled us in 1994. Unfortunately he doesn’t appear this time, but he’s ensured that a great ensemble cast does. The story takes place in 1920s […]