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Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role as the resolute archaeologist Erica Baron in the infamous 1981 so-bad-it’s-good movie Sphinx. Lesley-Anne Down enjoys a huge but ill-starred star role in the infamous 1981 […]
Director Jane Campion’s 1996 period drama literary adaptation is a chilly but excellent version of the Henry James novel, set in 1870s England. Everything about it is extremely plush, subtle, expert and just right. Nicole […]
In 1936 Alfred Hitchcock shrewdly casts the youthful, dashing matinée idol John Gielgud as W Somerset Maugham’s reluctant English espionage hero Richard Ashenden in his 1936 thriller Secret Agent. During the First World War, the […]
Writer-director Scott Hicks’s 1996 Aussie movie is a genuinely appealing heartwarmer. Three actors at different ages – boy, teen, man – shine brightly as the troubled real-life piano-playing genius David Helfgott (born 19 May 1947) […]