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Director Howard Hawks and co-director Richard Rosson’s 1933 wartime romantic drama Today We Live is a surprisingly low-powered, and now very much dated, movie from MGM studios, considering the high-voltage talent involved. As Ann Boyce-Smith, […]
Director Roy Boulting’s entertaining 1948 class drama The Guinea Pig (re-titled The Outsider in America) stars Richard Attenborough as 14-year-old Jack Read, the working-class son of London tobacconists Bernard Miles and Joan Hickson, who gets a […]
Steven Spielberg takes a fairly weak screen story and bashes all hell into it to make it a spectacular looking CGI-led flashy virtual reality movie, set in 2045, when the virtual world seems better than […]
The spooky 1989 sci-fi horror film Communion is based on the book by Whitley Strieber, and stars a haunted Christopher Walken as Strieber, facing his alleged real-life encounter with extra-terrestrials. Director Philippe Mora’s 1989 autobiographical […]
Debut director David Evans turns Nick Hornby’s best-selling autobiography into a sticky romantic comedy about a man a crazy over a football team and considerably less interested in a woman, set during the 1988-89 football […]
Director Todd Haynes’s beautiful, magical and enchanting 2017 family mystery drama is a glorious art work as well as a lovely entertainment. In the Seventies, a boy called Ben (Oakes Fegley) is left deaf after […]
Amy Irving stars as Izzy, a modern single 30-something who lives alone in her smart New York apartment, works in a bookshop and has lots of female friends and a Jewish grandmother who gets the matchmaker […]