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Alas, all good things have to come to an end. The splendid Joan Hickson takes on her 12th and final case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, in the 1992 TV mystery film The Mirror Crack’d […]
Yes, Doris Day and Ronald Reagan made a film together – director Lewis Seiler’s 1952 drama The Winning Team, a careful Warner Bros biopic of Grover Cleveland Alexander, the Nebraska phone engineer who hit the […]
Dolph Lundgren stars in writer-director Sylvester Stallone’s 1985 boxing movie sequel Rocky IV as Russian boxer Ivan Drago, the so-called ‘Siberian Express’, who delivers a final knockout blow to Rocky Balboa (Stallone)’s old rival and […]
Three splendid performances from Miles Teller, Aaron Eckhart and Ciarán Hinds as a real-life boxer, his coach and his dad, are the making of this otherwise just par-for-the-course inspirational boxing drama. Slightly oddly cast Teller is first […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s triumphant triple-Oscar-winning 1942 dramatic musical showbiz biopic of the life of renowned American musical composer, playwright, actor, dancer and singing star George M Cohan is gloriously rumbustious and effervescent. Packed with toe-tapping […]
Gloria Swanson triumphs as Norma Desmond, an unbalanced, faded ageing former movie star, in Billy Wilder’s eerily dark, deliciously bitter and wryly humorous 1950 film noir classic Sunset Blvd. ‘All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready […]
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