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Stormy Weather (1943): ‘HOORAY FOR RHYTHM! HALLELUJAH FOR FUN’. Director Andrew L Stone’s 1943 black and white film Stormy Weather stars Bill Robinson, Lena Horne, Fats Waller and Cab Calloway and His Cotton Club Orchestra. […]
Theda Bara plays the cinema’s first sex goddess, a seductive woman referred to as a ‘vampire’, in director Frank Powell’s 1915 American silent drama film A Fool There Was, which was long considered controversial for […]
Busby Berkeley’s first Technicolor musical film The Gang’s All Here (1943) is a deliriously extravagant concoction with sexy star Alice Faye and gloriously camp Carmen Miranda. It was banned in Brazil! And the huge bananas […]
Director Gregory Nava’s timely 1984 milestone immigrant saga El Norte [The North] is the moving, thoughtful and exciting tale of a Guatemalan brother and sister who escape across the US – Mexico border to LA […]
Director Gregory La Cava 1926 comedy So’s Your Old Man is one of W C Fields’s best silent comedies, in which he plays Mr Samuel Bisbee, a tippling glazier and henpecked husband, who takes his […]
Hollywood’s favourite subject – Hollywood – spurs this deservedly famous, still amusing silent comedy story of the rise and rise of Peggy Pepper (wonderful Marion Davies) from green Georgia girl, to slapstick stooge to dramatic […]
Elia Kazan was Oscar-nominated as writer, producer (Best Picture) and director for this uplifting, if seemingly endless chunk of his own family biography about a young Anatolian Greek, living in the oppressions of Turkey more […]