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Tim Burton’s 1988 dark American fantasy horror comedy film Beetlejuice is an early sign of his genius and a near-perfect little masterpiece. Tim Burton’s 1988 horror comedy film Beetlejuice features the cinema’s craziest attic, with […]
Gloria Swanson triumphs as Norma Desmond, an unbalanced, faded ageing former movie star, in Billy Wilder’s eerily dark, deliciously bitter and wryly humorous 1950 film noir classic Sunset Blvd. ‘All right, Mr DeMille, I’m ready […]
The marvellous, splendidly quirky, constantly amusing 1951 Ealing Studios classic comedy caper The Lavender Hill Mob is the only one of their famous comedies ever to win an Oscar. This marvellous, splendidly quirky, constantly amusing […]
Based on Daphne du Maurier’s famed novel, Hitchcock’s atypical romantic melodrama from 1940 is the middle film of a trio Hitch adapted from the author’s work between Jamaica Inn and The Birds. It spins the […]
‘What’s the meaning of goodness if there isn’t a little badness to overcome?’ Discuss! Ancient now it may be, but the MGM Studio’s fondly remembered 1944 Christmas treat can still be a good-natured rosette winner for […]