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Mark Wahlberg is excellent in a serious role as English lit professor and compulsive high-stakes gambler Jim Bennett. His debt forces him to borrow money from his unpleasant wealthy mother (Jessica Lange) and, when he […]
In 1951 the MGM studio uses the excuse of colour and widescreen to remake James Whale’s superb 1936 black and white film of the vintage Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical about turn-of-the-last-century Mississippi river folk. […]
The beguiling 1953 movie of the delightful Cole Porter Broadway smash-hit show Kiss Me Kate has style, wit and charm in abundance, plus the perfect cast to show off the songs: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, […]
Stephen Dorff and Emile Hirsch are the American working-class Flannigan brothers. One lost a leg train-hopping; the other is a recovering alcoholic. Now Jerry Lee and Frank are forced to flee their Reno motel after getting involved […]
‘America’s dazzling dancing stars explode in a glorious songburst of gayety and gladness!’ Director George Stevens’s heavenly all-time great 1936 musical Swing Time stars the divine pair of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, already in […]