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MGM take a dip into French literature and both survive! Director Vincente Minnelli’s lavish and well-played 1949 American production finds James Mason cast as the 19th-century writer Gustave Flaubert, who is on trial for corruption […]
James Franciscus stars as American Southern coal truck driver turned writer Arthur ‘Youngblood’ Hawke, who lets fame and the ladies go to his head in New York City, in writer-producer-director Delmer Daves’s 1964 jet set drama […]
Don Cheadle plays Pearl Madison, a juvenile detention centre jail teacher who probes the mystery of just why the teenage boy Leland (Ryan Gosling) killed his ex-girlfriend’s special needs disabled kid brother. Writer-director Matthew Ryan […]
I’ve just opened my Time Out and I’m in shock. They gave The Man Who Invented Christmas FOUR STARS! So I’ve got to say it: ‘Bah, humbug!’ The Man Who Invented Christmas is a well meaning […]
Co-writer/ director Melville Shavelson’s 1972 movie is an interesting but uncomfortable mix of comedy, drama, romance, sentiment and seriousness, loosely based on James Thurber’s writings and drawings. Jack Lemmon plays Peter Wilson, a cartoonist going blind, […]
Writer-director George A Romero works outside the comfort zone of his low-budget zombie Dawn of the Dead formula with his intriguing, ambitious but messy 1992 film version of Stephen King’s 1989 novel, the second best-selling book […]
Producer-director Richard Attenborough’s 1993 cinema version of William Nicholson’s TV and stage play is a wonderfully warm-hearted and poignant experience. It won the Alexander Korda Award for Best British Film at the 1994 BAFTA Awards. there were […]