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Director Joel Schumacher’s 1999 thriller stars Nicolas Cage as Tom Welles, a surveillance specialist with a modest home-based business. Welles is called in by a rich old lady and her lawyer Daniel Longdale (Anthony Heald) […]
Director François Truffaut’s 1975 film about the desperate and doomed passion of the great French author Victor Hugo’s second daughter Adèle for handsome English officer Lieutenant Pinson is wonderfully lush and romantic – and deliciously […]
Director John Cromwell’s 1934 romantic drama Of Human Bondage stars the 26-year-old Bette Davis, who after three years in the business finally shoots to stardom as the cold and unfeeling trampy cockney waitress Mildred Rogers, who […]
Director Jack Clayton’s painstaking, beguilingly romantic 1974 version of the great F Scott Fitzgerald novel of 1925 is the third movie of the classic work. It is lit up with captivating performances headed by Robert […]
Director Vincente Minnelli’s 1958 portrait of the artist offered Kirk Douglas one of his three chances to win an Oscar but in the event he never won and had to be content with an honorary […]
The Climax is an excellent, little-known vintage Universal Studios horror movie that finds Boris Karloff back in mad doctor mode as Dr Hohner, a demented physician at the Vienna Royal Theatre, who becomes obsessed with a […]
Writer-director Neil Jordan’s 1999 movie is much better than the 1954 Hollywood-ised version (with Deborah Kerr and Van Johnson) and it’s an excellent and edgy though still not entirely satisfactory film of one of Graham Greene’s […]