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Finally, Derek Jacobi atones for his dreadful performance in Dead Again by grabbing hold of the part he he he was born for by the scruff of the neck and making it perfect. Jacobi plays […]
Reginald Le Borg’s nice and twisty 1944 thriller film Dead Man’s Eyes is the third Inner Sanctum series entry starring Lon Chaney Jr. Director Reginald Le Borg’s nice and twisty 1944 thriller film Dead Man’s […]
Writer-director Jean-Claude Biette’s 1982 French comedy drama Loin de Manhattan is intriguing and densely scripted, with playful performances and teasing results. It stars Jean-Christophe Bouvet, Sonia Saviange, Howard Vernon, and Laura Betti. In Biette’s complex screenplay, […]
Ben Barnes is perfect as the hedonistic, corrupt young Dorian Gray in director Ol Parker’s smart, sensual and well-tuned 2009 film of Oscar Wilde’s only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Looking and sounding just […]
Director Julian Jarrold’s conscientious, sumptuous and costly ($20 million) remake for the cinema of Brideshead Revisited in 2008 of the much loved 1981 classic of British TV drama Brideshead Revisited is an effective adaptation of […]
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 […]
Director Fritz Lang is in his element with the splendidly dark and menacing 1945 black and white film noir movie Scarlet Street starring Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. It is one of […]