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Director David MacDonald’s entertaining 1949 historical biopic was originally scorned because it lacks a seriousness of purpose. But now it can be admired as an enjoyable piece of good fun, as well as for its […]
Co-writer / director Joachim Trier’s Norwegian romantic mystery supernatural drama stars Eili Harboe as a college-age young woman called Thelma, who is definitely looking for her Louise. Thelma finds her in the shape of Anja (Kaya […]
Victoria & Abdul is sweet, funny and charming. How could it not be? The 82-year-old national treasure Dench shines again, re-creating or revisiting her popular Oscar nominated role as Queen Victoria from Mrs Brown 20 […]
Will Hay rose to prominence in his fourth film as the gentleman vicar, the Reverend Richard Jedd, falsely accused of racehorse nobbling, in this mild-mannered but still amusing farce adapted from Sir Arthur Wing Pinero’s fine […]
Warner Oland stars in the enjoyable 1929 chiller film The Mysterious Dr Fu Manchu as Sax Rohmer’s evil Chinese criminal mastermind Dr Fu Manchu, who sets out to avenge the death of his wife and […]
Director Albert Parker’s classic 1922 American silent mystery thriller stars John Barrymore as Sherlock Holmes, Roland Young as Dr John Watson, Gustav von Seyffertitz as Professor Moriarty, Carol Dempster as Alice Faulkner and Louis Wolheim as Moriarty’s henchman Craigin. It marks the screen debuts of William Powell […]
Writer-director Roger Michell’s remake of Daphne Du Maurier’s novel, first filmed with Richard Burton and Olivia de Havilland in 1952, also as My Cousin Rachel, is a thoroughly enjoyable dark romance, successfully bringing out the enduring appeal of the […]