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Something wicked this way comes. Vatican official Jonathan Pryce sends troubled scientist-priest Gabriel Byrne to Pittsburgh to investigate the case of a young hairdresser (Patricia Arquette), who suffers agonising paranormal attacks, causing her to bleed […]
Roger Ebert’s final film review is of his three and a half star romantic drama from director Terrence Malick and starring Ben Affleck, Olga Kurylenko, Rachel McAdams, and Javier Bardem. It is a heady and haunting mystic-minded meditation […]
In the Occupied French provincial town of Saint Bernard during World War Two, a young woman, Barny Sangredin (Emmanuelle Riva), a communist-supporting widow with a little daughter Christine (Irène Tunc), falls in love with a priest, Léon […]
This tasty 1983 black comedy from fashionable cult writer-director Pedro Almodóvar is his third film – after Pepi, Luci, Bom (1980) and Labyrinth of Passion (1982). It has an almost all-female cast featuring many of his favourite leading ladies and is […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s worthy if superficial 1955 film was a prestige production but did not deserve or win any Oscars, or indeed any prizes. However, the intriguingly oddball script, Humphrey Bogart and the distinguished support […]
Constance Bennett and Gracie Fields form an odd but likeable double act as an American woman and her English friend who join forces to hide Allied fliers from the Nazis in occupied Paris in World […]
Producer-director Leo McCarey brings Oscar-winning Bing Crosby quickly back for his heartwarming, sweet but not sickly 1945 follow-up to Going My Way (1944), with Father O’Malley (Crosby) now melting away the prejudices of chirpy Sister […]