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The 1986 TV movie Miss Marple: The Murder at the Vicarage again stars Joan Hickson, who takes on her fifth case as the BBC’s Miss Marple, based on Agatha Christie’s first novel to feature Miss […]
It’s just a sarong at twilight as the saronged lady Dorothy Lamour leads director Alfred Santell’s lavish but creaky 1941 reworking of Maurice Tourneur’s 1926 silent movie (with Gilda Gray, Percy Marmont and Warner Baxter), mixing adventure and […]
Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s chilly and attractively unusual 1969 low budget German black-and-white film is his first feature, valuable as an interesting apprentice work of this important director. It tells a dour and doomy noir-style gangster story, as seen through […]
Writer/ producer/ director Jean-Luc Godard’s revolutionary-minded 1967 French film is perhaps more of a political tract on behalf of Maoism than an actual movie. Just before the real-life 1968 left-wing revolt of students, artists and […]
Writer-director Bo Widerberg’s gorgeously pretty 1967 lovers-on-the-run romance Elvira Madigan, set in 19th-century Sweden, was a huge art house cinema hit in the Sixties. Widerberg’s screenplay is based on a real-life 19th century romantic story […]
Co-writer/director Shane Black’s invigoratingly dark and cynical action comedy thriller is just great. It manages to be both funny and exciting, and a makes for a brilliant, exhilarating evening in the cinema for grown-ups. Russell Crowe […]
Writer-director S Craig Zahler’s 2015 epic Western is a brilliant bone-cruncher. It’s a bone-a-fide gun-slinging cult hit. When there’s trouble in a Wild West town, the grizzled sheriff (Kurt Russell), his ancient back-up deputy (Richard Jenkins) and […]