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Forgotten film The Lady Says No (1951). Forgotten star Joan Caulfield. Not too much to remember. Producer-director Frank Ross’s 1951 American comedy film The Lady Says No stars Joan Caulfield, David Niven and James Robertson Justice. […]
Sexploitation director Russ Meyer said: ‘They told me “You must do The Seven Minutes. You are the spokesperson against the forces of censorship.”‘ ‘An explosive film about a banned book, a rape, and a trial […]
The 1988 direct-to-video horror film Howling IV: The Original Nightmare is the closest adaptation of Gary Brandner’s original 1977 source novel The Howling, from a screenplay by Freddie Rowe and Clive Turner, and a story by […]
Director Don Boyd’s 1989 drama Goldeneye is a glossy biographical sketch of James Bond creator Ian Fleming (ably played by Charles Dance), focusing on his love life and work in military intelligence during the 1940s […]
The excellent Roy Marsden gives another impeccable, grave performance as P D James’s sensitive copper Commander Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard, who investigates a macabre murder on England’s Suffolk coast linked to a currency fraud, […]
Directors William Hamilton and Edward Killy’s 1935 mystery thriller Seven Keys to Baldpate is the fifth of nine versions of this famous Earl Derr Biggers tale of a mystery writer, William Magee (played by Gene […]
Tolkien (2019) is a curate’s egg of a biographical drama film, with good scenes mixing uncomfortably with not such good ones. It stays interesting, though never fascinating, and this story of the young life of […]