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Producer-director Peter Yates’s first-class 1981 thriller is extremely moody, atmospheric, neat and tense throughout. The screenplay is convincingly written by Steve Tesich. The young William Hurt is at his best as the Vietnam War vet and Manhattan […]
Director Barry Sonnenfeld’s 1991 movie is a witty, often hilarious Gothic black comedy based on the Sixties TV show, in turn based on the macabre cartoons by Charles Addams, with ideal casting in Anjelica Huston, […]
Warren Beatty’s polished and thoroughly entertaining Hollywood romantic biographical drama stars Lily Collins and Alden Ehrenreich as a strict Christian aspiring young actress and her earnest, ambitious young driver, both trying to work round the […]
Director Milos Forman’s distinguished 1999 comedy drama stars Jim Carrey in one of his best roles and finest films. Carrey won the 2000 Golden Globe for Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – […]
Bob Hope and Paulette Goddard star in the funny, though still scary 1939 remake of the spooky house thriller The Cat and the Canary Director Elliott Nugent remakes director Paul Leni’s famed 1927 silent classic […]
Director George Cukor’s 1972 comedy drama stars Maggie Smith as Dotty Aunt Augusta Bertram, who takes her prim nephew Henry Pulling (Alec McCowen), a buttoned-up English bank manager, on an eccentric trip to Graham Greeneland, with […]
Maggie Smith won the 1970 Best Actress Oscar for her delightful playing of the headstrong Thirties Edinburgh schoolmarm Jean Brodie, in the enjoyable 1969 drama film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie. When she was […]