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Japanese director Kenji Mizoguchi’s 1952 The Life of Oharu [Saikaku Ichidai Onna] is a world cinema classic, with a remarkable performance by Kinuyo Tanaka as Oharu, a 17th-century samurai’s daughter who leads a life of […]
Director Raoul Walsh’s 1956 CinemaScope and Deluxe Color drama The Revolt of Mamie Stover is based on the novel by William Bradford Huie and stars Jane Russell as the titular Mamie Stover, a busty young […]
One-time pop star Fabian Forte enjoys himself as Thirties real-life nasty mobster Charles ‘Pretty Boy’ Floyd, creating quite a psychopathic ogre. Producer-director Larry Buchanan’s 1970 B-gangster movie A Bullet for Pretty Boy, made in the wake […]
You just know that if a film is call Joy, there will be no darned joy anywhere. And writer-director Sudabeh Mortezai’s 2018 Joy is certainly joyless. It is a tale of woe. Anwulika Alphonsus stars as […]
The 1946 Italian war drama Paisà [Paisan] is director Roberto Rossellini’s classic neo-realist account of how Italians lived in chaos, peril, emotional upheaval and hunger during the allied invasion of 1943-44, as the Allies head […]
The acerbically witty 1967 comedy film Divorce American Style finds Dick Van Dyke and Debbie Reynolds well paired as a warring married couple. Norman Lear was an Oscar nominee for his screenplay. Director Bud Yorkin’s […]
Director Muriel Box’s 1964 British comedy Rattle of a Simple Man stars Harry H Corbett, who gives an appealing turn as the naive, timid Manchester soccer fan Percy, a 39-year-old virgin who is persuaded by […]