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Director Frank Borzage’s polished 1938 The Shining Hour is a shining hour or so (76 minutes, actually) of well-acted melodrama as a rich, upper-class farmer Henry Linden (Melvyn Douglas) takes his new nightclub dancing hoofer […]
George Cukor’s 1957 film Les Girls is an end-of-an-era event. Gene Kelly ended his MGM contract with this feisty, slick Cole Porter musical about a cabaret dance troupe (Kelly and Kay Kendall, Mitzi Gaynor and […]
Director Nicholas Ray’s 1958 film noir gangster thriller Party Girl has a lot to offer: a gripping story (by Leo Katcher), a great mood and atmosphere, and fine performances, with acting lightweights Robert Taylor and […]
Levan Gelbakhiani stars as Merab, a talented young dancer at the National Georgian Ensemble, whose world is rocked when the alluring Irakli (Bachi Valishvili) muscles in on the scene, in writer-director Levan Akin’s thoroughly enjoyable […]
Can’t Stop the Music prompted John Wilson to create the Golden Raspberry (Razzie) Awards in 1980. It took the first Razzie award for Worst Picture, and also took Worst Screenplay. The late Seventies gay stereotypes […]
Writer-director Lorene Scafaria’s 2019 comedy crime drama Hustlers tells the real-life tale of a group of female strip club employees who go freelance and scam and rob their Wall Street male clients. It is inspired by […]
Director Roger Christian’s 1994 biographical drama Nostradamus tells the story of famed 16th-century doctor, physician, astrologer, prognosticator and visionary Nostradamus (Tchéky Karyo), who clashes with the authorities over the bloodletting treatment of the plague, which […]