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Fred Astaire and Lucille Bremer reunite from Ziegfeld Follies (1945) for more graceful dancing, filmed with flair and lavishness by MGM in glorious Technicolor. With Frank Morgan as Victor Trout, Leon Ames as Mr Candle, and Mildred Natwick […]
John Travolta lands a useful tailor-made role as the archangel Michael, with razor stubble, a hairy chest, a flabby gut and wings who drinks, smokes and dances. He comes back to Earth to live in […]
Co-writer/ co-producer/ co-director/ star Warren Beatty’s 1978 comedy is no relation to the 1943 classic Ernst Lubitsch movie of the same name, Heaven Can Wait, but instead a highly amusing and popular remake of Here Comes Mr […]
The 1968 sci-fi film Barbarella stars Jane Fonda as the title space traveller sent to find Durand Durand (Milo O’Shea), who has created a weapon that could destroy humanity. ‘I want to make something beautiful […]
In the fascinating and undervalued 1993 sequel to his 1987 international arthouse success Wings of Desire, co-writer-director Wim Wenders revisits a totally changed Berlin as he reunites with his stars Bruno Ganz and Otto Sander, who […]
Director Stephen Brill’s 2000 silly comedy tries hard to raise laughs but it is mostly almost painfully unfunny. Adam Sandler stars as Nicky, the geeky, mild-mannered son of The Devil (Harvey Keitel), sent from Hell to New […]
The 1947 Cary Grant film The Bishop’s Wife is rehashed as a too-cosy and schmaltzy acting-and-gospel-singing vehicle for Whitney Houston in director Penny Marshall’s 1996 heart-warmer. Her co-star Denzel Washington is appealing and charming as […]