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James M Cain’s dark and gritty 1937 thriller source novel Serenade is emasculated to produce a standard soapy Hollywood musical tale of a poor vineyard worker Damon Vincenti (Mario Lanza) rising to operatic success via […]
Co-writer/ director Richard Shepard’s 1991 movie The Linguini Incident tries hard to be a freewheeling, chic comedy in the style of Desperately Seeking Susan. But, despite being bizarre, energetic and sometimes even inventive, it just […]
Garry Marshall’s 1991 romantic comedy drama film Frankie and Johnny, is based on an excellent hit 1987 Broadway play by Terrence McNally, and stars miscast but engaging Al Pacino and Michelle Pfeiffer. Director Garry Marshall’s […]
Director Stephen Verona’s 1979 drama Boardwalk stars Ruth Gordon and Lee Strasberg as a beleaguered old Jewish couple, Becky Rosen and her husband David, who fight back when they are under attack from Strut (Kim Delgado)’s […]
Polish director Krzysztof Kieslowski (1941–1996) expanded the 61-minute sixth part of his Ten Commandments TV series into an 87-minute cinema feature as A Short Film About Love [Krótki film o milosci]. It is the most romantic […]
Writer-director Valerie Breiman’s delicious 2000 romantic comedy drama Love & Sex stars Famke Janssen and Jon Favreau. Janssen plays a magazine journalist called Kate Welles who ditches her companion at an art exhibition for a painter […]
George Hamilton’s 1979 vampire spoof movie Love at First Bite is his best film in 20 years – an unexpectedly funny Dracula send-up, with Hamilton out for the Count as Vladimir Dracula in New York, […]