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Sit back in your chair for musical heaven with original stage director Trevor Nunn’s splendid 1999 screen version of the Royal National Theatre’s award-winning 1998 London stage production of the 1943 Richard Rodgers and Oscar […]
Both director Paul Verhoeven and his star Arnold Schwarzenegger are on or very near their best form for this exhilarating 1990 science-fiction thriller, a clever mix of bright ideas, involving plot, witty satire and violent […]
Director John Whitesell’s Fifties-set 1993 youth-oriented coming-of-age comedy stars Jason Priestley, Gabriel Olds and Jerry O’Connell as late teens who go to Hollywood to fulfil the dream of meeting Marilyn Monroe. One summer holiday, cocky Roy Darpinian […]
Writer-director Andrei Tarkovsky’s 1986 final masterwork stars Erland Josephson, who plays Alexander, an increasingly reclusive former actor, journalist and philosopher who has shunned fame and turned away from the vanities of society. It won four awards […]
‘I’ve often seen a cat without a grin – but a grin without a cat!’ – Alice. Three cheers for director Norman Z McLeod’s all-star, high-budget classic 1933 movie version of the two Lewis Carroll […]
Director Alain Resnais’s lovingly crafted 1977 drama was his first English-language film. It’s a total treat for the discerning. The great and good John Gielgud steals the acting honours even from Dirk Bogarde, Ellen Burstyn, […]
Brendan Fraser plays a nerdy, socially awkward IT worker and computer buff who meets up with The Devil, a very seductive Satan. She grants him seven wishes in return for selling his soul, tempting him with […]