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Director Douglas Aarniokoski’s 2000 unsubtle, but fast-paced, action-packed sci-fi fantasy adventure thriller brings Christopher Lambert back for his fourth turn as the sword-fighting immortal Connor MacLeod. This time he is meeting up with his long-lost immortal […]
Director Alfred Hitchcock wrote the original story for this richly enjoyable, flavoursome, unfairly neglected 1927 silent movie, in which Carl Brisson plays ‘One-Round’ Jack Sander, a young fairground-booth fighter who marries the cashier Nellie (Lillian […]
In June 2013, nine restored versions of Alfred Hitchcock’s early silent films, including his 1925 first completed film as director, The Pleasure Garden, were shown at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theatre. Known as […]
Oozing infectious easy-going charm and sheer niceness, Charlie Cox gives a likeable performance in this good-natured, cheerfully amateurish comedy drama. Cox is starring as single, recently unemployed and homeless hero Carter. He’s is indeed a man totally […]
Writer/director Mike Leigh’s 1993 eye-opener is one of his most powerful, controversial and uncompromising films, angering feminists big time. They booed and heckled him, trying to stop him speaking when he presented his movie at […]
Director Edwin L Marin’s 1933 detective mystery thriller film A Study in Scarlet stars Reginald Owen and Warburton Gamble as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson, who investigate a case of robbery and multiple murder […]
Gaslight (1944) won two Academy Awards. The Oscar voters surprisingly preferred Ingrid Bergman over the favourite Barbara Stanwyck (in Double Indemnity) for her performance as the naïve socialite wife driven to distraction (by Charles Boyer) […]