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Director Lewis Milestone’s deservedly much admired 1946 thriller The Strange Love of Martha Ivers mixes film noir with steamy melodrama. The result is this fascinating and riveting excursion into one woman’s nightmare. It is notable […]
Told in four acts, writer-director Jacques Demy’s irresistible, bitter-sweet 1964 classic French musical romance has originality, freshness, joie de vivre and charm in bucketfuls. Though the actors are dubbed, every word is sung in Demy’s seemingly effortless […]
Hannibal series producer Dino de Laurentiis hires Girl with a Pearl Earring director Peter Webber to direct the story prequel Hannibal Rising in 2007. Gaspard Ulliel stars as young Hannibal, who begins plotting his vengeance on […]
Director Henry Selick’s gorgeous 1996 British children’s movie stars Paul Terry as the titular James Trotter, a lonely nine-year-old orphan who is given a bag of glowing green seeds and grows a giant peach housing […]
All aboard director Lasse Hallström‘s 2001 The Shipping News, a first-class trip to the spectacular, chilly landscapes of Newfoundland, the setting for the plushest acting performances you will see in a long while. Kevin Spacey […]
Mama is a pretty good, well-crafted Spanish version of the Japanese drippy water, scary videos, troubled mamas kind of chillers. It has its tense and scary moments, plus a whole lot of atmosphere. Co-writer director […]
Orson Welles lost control of his 1942 film The Magnificent Ambersons to RKO, who cut more than an hour of footage and shot a happier ending. Film-maker Brian Rose has revealed his plan to restore […]