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Maximilian Schell makes a fair job of The Phantom in director Robert Markowitz’s sumptuous, fast moving and well-cast 1983 TV movie remake, attractively filmed in Hungary. This tolerable but not special film makes no special […]
Apparently provoked by claims that he was a doom merchant, Ingmar Bergman comes up with this light-hearted and light-weight satirical comedy, and, funnily enough, it isn’t funny. Bergman’s first film in colour, it tells the tale […]
George S Kaufman and Moss Hart’s acerbic famous evergreen classic Broadway play (1939) comes to the screen with all its acid and hilarity intact in Julius J Epstein and Philip G Epstein’s screenplay for director […]
Director Gregory La Cava’s hugely entertaining 1937 classic comedy stars Katharine Hepburn as American rich society beauty Terry Randall and Ginger Rogers as sarcastic, smart-mouth broad Joan Maitland. The duo spar delightfully as young actresses sharing rooms […]
Frank Capra’s sleek and sophisticated 1944 black comedy film Arsenic and Old Lace showcases Cary Grant’s amazing display of double and treble takes. Director Frank Capra’s sleek and sophisticated 1944 black comedy film Arsenic and […]
Former Batman Michael Keaton bravely, boldly and extremely well plays Riggan Thomson, a well-known actor who once played an iconic movie superhero called The Birdman. Now washed-up after turning down a fourth instalment of the Birdman […]
Director Douglas Hickox’s engagingly outrageous 1973 British horror farce movie Theatre of Blood provides an ideal showcase for Vincent Price, whose talent for succulent over-acting is lavishly displayed when he plays crazed thespian Edward Lionheart, […]