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‘Know that we have divided In three our kingdom: and ’tis our fast intent To shake all cares and business from our age; Conferring them on younger strengths, while we Unburthen’d crawl toward death.’ Well […]
Angelina Jolie looks magnificent as Maleficent: Mistress of Evil (2019) but it’s a no-acting-required type of role, with her dialogue spare and sparce. As the movie is a CGI fest, they could just as well […]
Director J Lee Thompson’s 1965 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home! Is an off-target, iffy, campy and very silly Sixties satirical comedy from writer William Peter Blatty, the man who wrote The Exorcist. Richard Crenna plays […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1952 Columbia Pictures romantic adventure The Brigand is a cheap and fairly cheerful reworking of Alexandre Dumas’s story Brigand: A Romance of the Reign of Don Carlos, with Anthony Dexter in both […]
Co-writer/ director Erich von Stroheim 1925 silent MGM version of the famous Franz Lehar operetta Die Lustige Witwe is hugely successful and was a huge success. The wayward maverick director encourages Mae Murray’s classiest performance […]
So what kind of bender are you? A Waterbender, Firebender, Earthbender or maybe an Airbender? Or are you an Avatar, perhaps? The script of this kids’ story about the adventures of a young boy called […]
Finding first choice Stewart Granger otherwise engaged, MGM studios cast their then waning star Robert Taylor as the disowned knight Ivanhoe in director Richard Thorpe’s thoroughly enjoyable Normans versus Saxons 1952 mediaeval swashbuckler Ivanhoe, derived […]