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Director Stephen Frears’s excellent 1971 British neo-noir retro-gangster yarn provides a heaven-sent acting opportunity for Albert Finney as Eddie Ginley, a music-hall comedian/ nightclub bingo caller who really wants to be Dashiell Hammett’s legendary fictional […]
The Pagemaster is a well-meaning but only modestly engaging 1994 mix of cartoon (directed by Maurice Hunt) and live action (directed by the 1995 Jumanji‘s Joe Johnston) plus a worthy message: ‘Books are good for you!’ […]
Co-writer/director Daniel Taradash’s hesitant but important 1956 drama stars Bette Davis as widowed American small-town librarian Alicia Hull who is branded as a subversive and a Communist when she stands up to a campaign to […]
In director Jacques Tourneur’s 1957 vintage British horror movie Night of the Demon [Curse of the Demon], Niall MacGinnis has a fine old time as occultist and devil cult leader Dr Julian Karswell, who summons […]