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Romance and drama down Mexico way are to the fore in three tales of frustrated love in director Norman Foster’s pleasingly peculiar 1953 Technicolor romantic musical Sombrero, based on Josefina Niggli’s book A Mexican Village. […]
MISBEHAVIOUR is enjoyable and good. Keira Knightley is well employed as Sally Alexander and Rhys Ifans is very funny as Eric Morley. Director Philippa Lowthorpe’s historical drama Misbehaviour is enjoyable and good. It tells the […]
As the punning title of the 1966 Rank Organisation slapstick comedy Press for Time suggests, Norman Wisdom plays a reporter on a local seaside newspaper at Tinmouth, where he has been hidden away by his grandfather, […]
Director Basil Dean’s bright and breezy 1934 British musical comedy drama Sing as We Go! is by far the most resilient of Gracie Fields’s films, bubbling with the spectacle of Lancashire folk at work and […]
Director Milos Forman’s amusing, closely observed 1967 Czech comedy, made in the style of a Czechoslovakian Jacques Tati but with sharp a political bite, centres on the arrangements for a small Czech provincial town’s annual […]
Director Michael Patrick Jann’s 1999 comedy Drop Dead Gorgeous is a hilarious, bad-taste fake documentary (‘mockumentary’) about a Minnesota small town teen-pageant beauty contest, in which poor girl Kirsten Dunst fights it out with rich […]
‘When it comes to Beauty Queens – it’s Carry On and bust!’ The 25th Carry On movie Carry On Girls from 1973 stars Sidney James as local councillor Sidney Fiddler, who battles bossy feminist Councillor […]
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