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MGM’s 1934 romantic film Sadie McKee stars Joan Crawford, who dominates this sleek and glossy soap opera, improbably cast as a luckless young lady. Bette Davis said: ‘She’s slept with every male star at MGM […]
Mary McCarthy’s Sixties voguish novel about the lives of eight 1933 Vassar-style Ivy-League private girls’ college graduates was one of the popular literary hits of the day and the inevitable 1966 movie version proves an […]
Director Tony Richardson encourages superb acting from Katharine Hepburn and Paul Scofield as Agnes and Tobias, an ageing, well-to-do Connecticut couple quarrelling with their family members and best friends. They are their daughter Julia (Lee Remick), ready […]
The best and worst of life on one of the toughest Glasgow estates are observed in writer Paul Laverty and director Ken Loach’s raw and insightful 1998 film. Peter Mullan stars as the man named Joe, an out […]
Director Blake Edwards’s 1962 drama is one of the cinema’s best films about the dangers of drink, perhaps second only to The Lost Weekend (1945). Jack Lemmon stars as clever but over-pressured advertising executive Joe Clay, who […]
Grace Kelly won the Best Actress Oscar for her non-glamorous departure role as an alcoholic actor (Bing Crosby)’s long-suffering wife, in the 1954 drama The Country Girl. Writer-director George Seaton’s double Oscar-winning 1954 drama The Country […]
Taron Egerton and Hugh Jackman are a fun double act in this entertaining, thoroughly enjoyable feel-good movie about Michael ‘Eddie’ Edwards, the unlikely, courageous British ski-jumper and the reluctant, charismatic coach Bronson Peary who trains him for the 1988 Calgary […]