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Director Michael Curtiz’s 1956 film The Best Things in Life Are Free is a genial, vivacious, entertaining 20th Century Fox CinemaScope and Color by Deluxe musical tribute to 1920s jazz age Broadway and Hollywood songsmiths […]
Writer-director Lisa Cholodenko’s 1998 romantic drama High Art stars Radha Mitchell as a young woman intern whose magazine career is on the rise, thanks to her relationship with a once beautiful lesbian photographer (Ally Sheedy), […]
Director John Frankenheimer’s 1971 macho action adventure drama The Horsemen is propelled with a sterling performance by Omar Sharif as Uraz, the son of sheikh Tursen (Jack Palance), wounded and humiliated in a barbaric variant […]
Director Sam Peckinpah’s distinguished 1977 war film Cross of Iron is a tough and compelling dissection of the German military mind, seen through the eyes of four men in bloody battle against Russia in 1943. […]
Miriam Hopkins is the titular redhead in director Curtis Bernhardt’s 1940 drama Lady with Red Hair, a glossy, fictional account of the career and times of actress Mrs Leslie Carter and her guiding hand, the […]
The Founder starts as an advert for McDonald’s fast food and the disposable, ambitious, cheery, patriotic American way. But then, just when you think you are paying to see and advert, it turns quite dark […]
The 2016 film The Carer is all about a legendary old thespian, played with the utmost skill and relish by a perfectly cast Brian Cox as the increasingly ill Sir Michael Gifford, suffering from an […]