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The 1966 comedy film The Trouble with Angels stars Hayley Mills and June Harding as naughty schoolgirls running wild in a Pennsylvanian Catholic convent boarding school, where canny Mother Superior (Rosalind Russell) tames and civilises […]
Director Fernando Meirelles’s fascinating true-life biographical comedy drama The Two Popes (2019) is one of the films of the year, with Jonathan Pryce and Anthony Hopkins both on scalding form as the liberal future Pope […]
The 1969 French charmer My Night with Maude [Ma Nuit Chez Maud] [My Night at Maud’s] is the fourth film of Eric Rohmer’s six Moral Tales (Contes Moreaux). It was nominated for two Oscars for […]
Satan Never Sleeps…but you may. Director Leo McCarey bows out on a real low spot in 1962 with this gobsmackingly boring tale about two priests (Clifton Webb as Father Bovard, William Holden as Father O’Banion) […]
Director Phillip Noyce’s 1978 Australian times are changing movie Newsfront is an excellent, likeable, good-humoured drama of rival Aussie cinema newsreel cameramen in the Fifties. They are sweet-natured Len Maguire (Bill Hunter) for ‘Cinetone’ and bad-tempered […]
Director Roland Joffé’s religious-minded 1986 British anti-war film stars Jeremy Irons as Father Gabriel, a saintly 18th-century Spanish priest, whose Jesuit mission in South America is closed by a papal order. But Robert De Niro also […]
Writer-director Chris Columbus’s 1991 comedy stars John Candy as timid middle-aged Chicago cop Billy Muldoon who wants to throw off his nagging old bat of a domineering Irish mother (Maureen O’Hara) and marry nice Polish-Italian […]