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The Four Feathers (1929) is Paramount Pictures’s final all-silent movie, though with a synchronised score (by William F Peters) and a few sound effects. This silent film with added synchronised sound but no dialogue is […]
The dramatic true tale Richard Jewell (2019) is a lovely film, showing Clint Eastwood at his best as producer-director. Ironically, though Richard Jewell saves thousands of lives from an exploding bomb at the 1996 Olympics, […]
Director Christine Edzard’s rich 1987 film Little Dorrit is a deservedly praised, huge-canvas two-part film of Charles Dickens’s romantic drama/ social satire about good Samaritan Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi), who returns to England after 20 […]
Director Tim Burstall’s 1981 action adventure Attack Force Z is short and sharp, with good work from a cast headed by the unfairly fading American star John Phillip Law (once the archangel in Barbarella) as […]
Director Rouben Mamoulian’s witty and delightful classic 1935 film version of William Makepeace Thackeray’s novel Vanity Fair made movie history as the first feature film to use the newly developed three-strip Technicolor throughout. It was […]
Directors Zoltan Korda and Terence Young’s completely unwanted CinemaScope remake of the great 1939 Zoltan Korda adventure classic The Four Feathers, based on the novel by A E W Mason, does not even have the […]
Mr Peabody and Sherman is not only the first film based on the 1959-64 TV series Rocky and His Friends since 2000, but the first fully-animated film ever based on Rocky and Bullwinkle. I expect […]
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