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RKO’s 1934 film The Age of Innocence is an intriguing but rather unpersuasive Victorian romantic melodrama taken from Edith Wharton’s Pulitzer prize-winning classic 1920 novel, remade by Martin Scorsese in 1993. Director Philip Moeller’s 1934 […]
Director Maria Ripoli’s 2001 romantic comedy drama Tortilla Soup stars Hector Elizondo, who is first rate as retired master chef Martin Naranjo, a cooking-buff Mexican-American widower, living with his three daughters Leticia, Carmen and Maribel […]
The 1977 British TV classic Abigail’s Party is a savagely funny BBC comedy drama devised and directed by Mike Leigh. This wicked attack on lower-middle-class manners is particularly memorable for Alison Steadman’s formidable portrayal of […]
Director George Bowers’s 1980 film The Hearse stars Trish Van Devere as San Francisco schoolteacher Jane Hardy, who for the summer moves into an old house inherited from her deceased devil worshipper aunt in the […]
‘From HORROR To HOWLS… FROM MAYHEM TO MERRIMENT!’ ‘IT’S A CHILLER-DILLER OF A MAYHEM-AND-MERRIMENT SHOW!’ Director Lew Landers’s 1944 comedy horror movie The Boogie Man Will Get You stars Boris Karloff as nutty Professor Nathaniel […]
Director Howard Zieff’s 1978 screwball comedy film House Calls stars Walter Matthau and Glenda Jackson, who make an unlikely but delightful romantic comedy team, in this funny doctoring satire set against a hospital background. Matthau […]
Martin Scorsese’s reverent, faithful film of Edith Wharton’s 1920 novel The Age of Innocence follows the fortunes of society lawyer Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis), engaged to May Welland (Winona Ryder) but drawn to Countess Olenska […]