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Writer-producer-director Richard Brooks’s 1969 drama The Happy Ending stars Jean Simmons as a middle-aged American woman who looks back on a long, unhappy marriage as she walks out on her husband and family in order […]
Director Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 Australian feminist drama My Brilliant Career stars Judy Davis, giving a commanding performance in her second film as Sybylla Melvyn, the fiercely independent, self-assured Aussie bush-farmer’s daughter who wants to take […]
Despite an intriguing premise, director Brian Desmond Hurst’s old-style 1956 British adventure yarn The Black Tent becomes a tedious, dated World War Two North Africa-set wartime action romance, remarkable mainly for André Morell’s energetic performance and […]
Ah, yes, ‘Mother and Daughter Loving the Same Man!’ That idea could make an American romcom or it could be a Greek tragedy. Certainly here we don’t see the funny side of it. Writer/ producer/ […]
Director Gene Kelly’s 1967 bedroom farce A Guide for the Married Man assembles a whole army of familiar Sixties comedy faces to illustrate the dos and don’ts of marriage, and the pluses and minuses of unfaithfulness. Walter […]
Director Elaine May’s 1972 The Heartbreak Kid stars Charles Grodin as a New York Jewish kid named Lenny who is honeymooning in Miami with his new bride Lila (Jeannie Berlin) when he gets stung by […]
Director René Clair sprinkles magic dust on this enchanting 1942 whimsical comedy about a 260-year-old witch (Veronica Lake) and her much, much older wizard dad (Cecil Kellaway) who materialise in the present to scare the […]