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Director Melville Shavelson’s 1957 biographical drama Beau James stars Bob Hope, who commendably does the unexpected and tackles the political and love affairs of James ‘Jimmy’ Walker, the 1920s mayor of New York City, with more […]
Director Stuart Hagmann’s 1971 drama Believe in Me stars Michael Sarrazin and Jacqueline Bisset. Sarrazin was in a relationship for seven years (1967–1974) with Bisset, whom he met while making The Sweet Ride (1968). Hagmann, the director […]
Writer-director Henry Bean’s critically acclaimed 2001 drama The Believer is a fascinating and sincerely intentioned but highly controversial and disturbing psychological drama, based on fact, starring a convincing Ryan Gosling as Danny Balint, a young […]
It has been left to the Germans to make a film version of Hubert Selby Jr’s harrowing, controversial novel Last Exit to Brooklyn, banned following a private prosecution in July 1966, after its publication in […]
Director Charles Walters’s pleasing 1960 MGM Metrocolor comedy Please Don’t Eat the Daisies pleasantly and profitably pairs Doris Day with David Niven. Jean Kerr’s bestselling book about her life with theatre critic Walter Kerr, who […]
Writer-director Noah Baumbach’s semi-autobiographical Marriage Story (2019) should be called Divorce Story. It is the portrait of a marriage breaking up, broken up, and a once-loving couple trying to pick up the pieces. Adam Driver, […]
Little Women (2019) is nominated for six Oscars and five Baftas, but it is an over-earnest, plodding and underwhelming movie, with writer-director Greta Gerwig struggling to make Louisa May Alcott’s novel more ‘modern’ and ‘relevant’ […]