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Producer-director William Wyler’s capable, weepie film of Theodore Dreiser’s novel Sister Carrie boasts one of Laurence Olivier’s most distinguished performances as George Hurstwood, the restaurateur who leaves his wife Julie (Miriam Hopkins) for farm girl […]
The Founder starts as an advert for McDonald’s fast food and the disposable, ambitious, cheery, patriotic American way. But then, just when you think you are paying to see and advert, it turns quite dark […]
Vidal Peterson and Shawn Carson play 12-year-old boys Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade who search for the secret of a creepy carnival that visits their Illinois small town, in director Jack Clayton’s smoothly scary 1983 […]
Will Smith stars with his real-life son Jaden Smith as a father named Christopher ‘Chris’ Gardner facing ruin with his little kid in director Gabriele Muccino’s evidently sincere and well-meaning 2006 true-story heart-warmer. It is 1981 and Gardner […]
Director Henry Cass’s neat and nimble 1950 small-scale black comedy stars Alec Guinness, who is his usual expert and excellent self in a subtly sentimental, neatly scripted original story and screenplay by J B Priestley. […]
The 1940 Ernst Lubitsch romcom is a Christmas delight, telling the story of two employees (Margaret Sullavan and James Stewart) at a Budapest leathergoods store in the lead-up to Christmas. Director Ernst Lubitsch’s 1940 sparkling romantic […]
‘Everybody’s lonely, worried, and sorry. Everybody’s looking for something.’ – Jane Russell. Director Josef Von Sternberg ties his steamy, sultry 1952 film noir up in a tidy knot. This underrated, very likeable thriller boasts two scintillating performances […]