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Writer-director Oliver Parker’s 2002 film follows up his 1999 success with another Oscar Wilde adaptation, An Ideal Husband. Parker’s film of The Importance of Being Earnest is a marvellous, hilarious, sumptuous and above all fresh […]
Director John Schlesinger’s film stars the 22-year-old Kate Beckinsale, who gives a brisk, no-nonsense, confident turn as Flora Poste, the 1920s aspiring novelist heroine whose father has died leaving her virtually penniless. So she seeks out […]
Director Henry King’s 1939 Western is marvellous vintage action entertainment with a provocative central idea of the outlaws being dubiously reinvented as heroes, just like in Robin Hood or Bonnie and Clyde. That’s how the […]
Just days before the UK switches its currency to Euros, a gang has a chance to rob a poorly-secured train loaded with money on its way to incineration. During the robbery, one of the big […]
The World War Two-set 1943 mystery adventure film Sherlock Holmes in Washington sees Basil Rathbone’s Sherlock Holmes and Nigel Bruce’s Dr Watson travelling to Washington DC to prevent a secret document from falling into enemy […]
The 1942 film noir thriller This Gun for Hire transforms Graham Greene’s novel into a showcase for the sparkling new star team of Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake (just 20), propelling them into superstardom. ‘You […]
Director Mimi Leder’s 1997 movie is an exciting, intelligent, well-crafted, thinking person’s action thriller. George Clooney and Nicole Kidman star as an American army colonel, Special Operations Intelligence Officer Lt. Col. Thomas Devoe, and a civilian […]