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Esteemed French film director Jacques Demy came to Germany and Britain to make this undervalued 1972 film version of the tale of the 14th-century strolling minstrel who leads a plague of rats out of Hamelin, […]
‘One crowded hour of glorious life is worth an age without a name.’ – Colonel William Travis. Remember The Alamo? Well, not this version, anyway, for director John Lee Hancock ‘s misjudged, murky-looking and mostly boring 2004 […]
There is a lot of fun to be had from writer-director Woody Allen’s polished, handsome-looking and fast-moving 1975 satirical comedy from the far-off happy days when he was spoofing art rather than trying to make […]
Director William Dieterle’s 1937 romantic melodrama film was an old-fashioned antique even when it was new. Its mix of adventure plus romance in the British Empire is a soap-opera-style time-filler set in an imperial African […]
Director Sidney Lanfield’s 1941 show is a very big-budget musical from the Columbia studio that stars Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth in a ‘triumphant teaming of beauty and rhythm’, which, while hugely entertaining, never quite […]
Burgess Meredith lands a great role as real-life American newsman Ernie Pyle, Scripps-Howard War Correspondent, in this riveting autobiographical war picture based on Pyle’s wartime memoirs Brave Men and Here Is Your War. Director William A […]
Director Edward Zwick’s distinguished, potent and highly emotional 1989 war movie about America’s first all-black volunteer company at the time of the American Civil War is, as it must be, a visceral experience as a violent and […]