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Co-writer/producer Val Lewton’s 1944 sequel to his 1943 Cat People is an eerie, melodramatic, film noir horror fantasy about a lonely child called Amy Reed (Ann Carter, aged six). She gets tangled up with an imaginary world inhabited […]
Director Agnieska Holland’s plush, riveting and indeed quite splendid 1996 remake of Henry James’s novel is a worthy remake of The Heiress (1949), set in 19th century New York. Jennifer Jason Leigh is excellent as […]
Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully as a woman who marries a murderous man, in the twisty and stylish 1952 cat-and-mouse film noir thriller Sudden Fear. Joan Crawford commands the screen forcefully in the twisty […]
Director D J Caruso’s gritty and exciting 2002 all-star thriller stars Val Kilmer as Danny Parker, who adopts a new lowlife identity and goes among drug pushers and crooks to find his beloved wife’s killers. […]
In 1964, the Carry On team make one of their very best, most loved movies, hilariously spoofing Elizabeth Taylor’s film Cleopatra, using the sets they abandoned at Pinewood studios when filming moved to Cinecitta in […]
Michael Powell’s 1957 film Ill Met By Moonlight [Night Ambush] with his long-term writing-producing-directing partner Emeric Pressburger is a stirring, old-style war adventure, telling a rattling good yarn, set in Crete in 1944. In the […]
After several previous famous movie versions, notably the 1933 Little Women with Katharine Hepburn and the 1949 Little Women with Elizabeth Taylor, this is a most attractive, appealing and beautiful-looking 1994 version of Louisa May […]