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Keira Knightley stars as English singer-songwriter Gretta who goes to New York with her long-time boyfriend Dave (Adam Levine) when he lands a deal with a major label. But the manipulative Dave is unfaithful, naturally rattling […]
Elvis Presley stars as a self-centred but good-hearted bad boy called Vince Everett, the epitome of troubled youth, in the 1957 teen musical film Jailhouse Rock. It caused a scandal because Elvis plays a bad […]
Producer-director Howard Hawks’s 1944 wartime adventure enjoys the enormous benefit of introducing the star pair of Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall to the screen, in the first of the real-life couple’s series of four movies together. It […]
Writer-director Kevin Spacey’s 2004 movie is his second as director, following 1996’s Albino Alligator. They couldn’t be more different films. That one was a set-bound, ensemble thriller with no appearance by the star. This one is […]
Director Alan Parker’s 1996 movie stars Madonna as Evita. Madonna scores a personal triumph in this splendidly lavish and swirling film adaptation of the 1978 Andrew Lloyd Webber-Tim Rice West End and Broadway stage hit […]
Director Joseph von Sternberg’s 1930 beautifully melancholic classic The Blue Angel [Der blaue Engel] stars his protégé Marlene Dietrich as the alluring nightclub cabaret singer Lola-Lola Frohlich. She marries the fat, fussy but infatuated Professor […]
Svengali-style producer-director Josef von Sternberg’s 1932 vintage romance provides a famous role for his protégé Marlene Dietrich as Helen Faraday, who works as the Blonde Venus chanteuse in smooth young millionaire playboy Nick Townsend’s nightclub. […]