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Director Gerald Thomas’s 1975 Carry On film Carry On Behind is the 27th in the series and stars Elke Sommer in her only appearance in a Carry On as a Russian archaeologist called Professor Anna Vooshka. While […]
Director Adrian Lyne remakes Stanley Kubrick’s ground-breaking 1962 film of Vladimir Nabokov’s famous controversial tale of an older man’s obsession for an adolescent girl in 1997. Jeremy Irons is perfectly cast and at his very best as […]
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 […]
Writer-director Bill Condon’s 2004 American biographical drama film Kinsey stars Liam Neeson, who gives a sterling performance as US academic and sex scientist Dr Alfred Kinsey, who became America’s most notorious man through his pioneering studies […]
Director Karel Reisz’s visceral but cerebral 1974 thriller stars James Caan as college literature professor Axel Freed, who has a secret vice as a compulsive gambler with a masochistic urge to lose and an inability to stop […]
Mark Wahlberg is excellent in a serious role as English lit professor and compulsive high-stakes gambler Jim Bennett. His debt forces him to borrow money from his unpleasant wealthy mother (Jessica Lange) and, when he […]
Director John Boulting and producer Roy Boulting’s 1957 movie Lucky Jim is a Fifties British comedy classic, based on the famed novel by Kingsley Amis – one of his very best. Ian Carmichael enjoys a […]