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Director John Brahm’s thrilling 1944 American Victorian melodrama horror film The Lodger provides a wonderful role for Laird Cregar, who is superb as Mr Slade, the mysterious stranger who finds lodgings in London’s Whitechapel district […]
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 Glen Gordon Caron’s 1994 turgid romance is a bloated and pretty disastrous attempt to re-film director Leo McCarey’s 1939 classic and his remake, An Affair to Remember. Warren Beatty stars in an ideal role […]
Fritz Lang’s superb 1944 film noir thriller The Woman in the Window stars Edward G Robinson as a professor obsessed with the portrait of a woman in the window next to his men’s club. While […]
Hurd Hatfield stars in the 1945 film The Picture of Dorian Gray as the beautiful young man who unwittingly makes a pact with the Devil to keep his youthful beauty while his portrait in the […]
Likeable and engaging, director Mira Nair’s 2004 film is a very fair if slightly uninspired stab at filming a difficult novel, plodding relentlessly through the seemingly endless and complex detail and plotlines of William Makepeace […]
Director Peter Webber’s civilised 2003 drama stars Scarlett Johansson as the Dutch maid Griet who becomes the model for 17th-century artist Dutch master Johannes Vermeer (1632-75), played by Colin Firth. Olivia Hetreed‘s literate screenplay for this highly […]