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‘I LOVE HIM because he doesn’t know how to kiss — THE JERK!’ Howard Hawks directs this hilarious 1941 comedy, a highspot for this kind of ‘screwball’ romantic comedy movie, working from a marvellous screenplay […]
Director Freddie Francis’s slow and tepid 1966 British horror thriller for Max J Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky’s Amicus productions stars Suzanna Leigh as Vicki Robbins, an exhausted dim and demented pop singer who takes a […]
Director Mark Sandrich’s 1938 romantic comedy musical movie is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s eighth film together and, though there is a lot of fun to be found here, sadly the high standard is now […]
Producer-director George Stevens’s expert and delightful 1938 comedy pairs James Stewart and Rogers effectively. The stars are perfectly cast and on their best form. Stewart plays young university professor Peter Morgan who takes a quick […]
A marvellous cast is assembled for director Gillies MacKinnon’s treasurable, heart-warming 2000 made-for-TV comedy drama, starring Judi Dench, Cleo Laine, Ian Holm, Joan Sims, June Whitfield, Billie Whitelaw, Olympia Dukakis and Leslie Caron. It is […]
Director Asif Kapadia’s 2015 documentary Amy is extremely well done, informative and moving, but also very depressing and upsetting. Amy Winehouse had it all – an incredible jazz voice, the ability to turn her emotional pain into […]
Director Richard Thorpe delivers a fair fun 1963 vehicle for Elvis Presley, who stars as Mike Windgren, a circus trapeze artist high-flyer with a fear of heights. So, with the help of little boy Raoul […]