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Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1937 movie Live, Love and Learn stars Rosalind Russell as a wealthy sophisticate who weds a poor artist (Montgomery). MGM’s vehicle for its two stars is a routine but still often amusing […]
Director Peter Hyams’s exciting 1999 Sci-fi thriller stars Arnold Schwarzenegger, still in his prime as he takes on his biggest foe yet – Satan – played with great aplomb by Gabriel Byrne. Schwarzenegger’s character Jericho […]
The entertaining 1933 American Pre-Code romantic drama film Chance at Heaven stars Ginger Rogers and Joel McCrea in enjoyable performances. Director William A Seiter’s far-fetched but thoroughly entertaining 1933 American Pre-Code romantic drama Chance at […]
MGM’s expensive, sprightly 1945 Week-End at the Waldorf remakes Grand Hotel, relocated to wartime New York City, and the Waldorf-Astoria, with amiable performances from Ginger Rogers, Lana Turner, Walter Pidgeon and Van Johnson. Director Robert […]
Director Wesley Ruggles’s 1943 MGM movie stars Lana Turner as Peggy Evans, a bored 21-year-old soda counter waitress who leaves her hick American town for New York, where she gets a make-over and masquerades as industrialist […]
Director Tim Whelan’s 1944 RKO movie showcase for Frank Sinatra is a pleasingly enjoyable follow-up to Higher and Higher (1943), reuniting star and director. It an engaging musical remake of the Marx Brothers’ 1938 film […]
Director Derek Jarman’s 1987 British renaissance experimental film provides a furious personal broadside, using the sometimes modest means at his disposal – old home movies and Super-8, as well as disturbing scenes of crumbling inner-city […]