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Sebastián Lelio remakes his own 2013 masterwork Gloria (2018) as Gloria Bell, just like Michael Haneke made his 1997 Funny Games as the 2007 English-language remake Funny Games. Gloria Bell offers a grand opportunity for […]
Director Jack Haley Jr’s 1985 history of dance documentary compilation feature That’s Dancing! is a kind of sequel to the 1974 That’s Entertainment!, with great clips from the Hollywood dance musicals, mostly MGM’s. Fast forward […]
In a slightly limping follow-up to their previous year’s dance-themed romantic hit Bolero, George Raft and Carole Lombard re-team as a Cuban New York dancer, Joe Martin, and bored society heiress, Diana Harrison, who romance […]
Director David Butler’s 1951 Technicolor musical Lullaby of Broadway is one of the films that established Doris Day as the top US female star in 1952. It is a modest achievement – a formulaic, though […]
Brio film-making but way too strong and scary for me. Writer-director Gaspar Noé’s dynamic but hellish 2018 musical horror drama Climax is controversial brio film-making, perhaps admirable in its way, but way too strong and […]
The acerbically witty 1967 comedy film Divorce American Style finds Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds well paired as a warring married couple. Norman Lear was an Oscar nominee for his screenplay. Director Bud Yorkin’s […]
Liza Minnelli and Julie Walters are the making of Lewis Gilbert’s 1991 musical comedy Stepping Out. Liza Minnelli steps out in director Lewis Gilbert’s old-fashioned, likeable and mildly enjoyable 1991 British musical comedy Stepping Out as […]