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Sweet Country is a sweet racially charged Australian Western. Director Warwick Thornton’s obviously ironically named Australian Western, inspired by true events on the Northern Territory frontier in the 1920s, stars Hamilton Morris as middle-aged Aboriginal […]
‘The Love Idyll of the Age!’ screams the poster but the movie is way less exciting. Director Alfred E Green’s 1934 drama A Lost Lady stars Barbara Stanwyck as Marian Ormsby, whose unfaithful fiancé is […]
Director William Dieterle’s 1935 Warner Bros drama is interesting and short (at 64 minutes) but wordy, plodding and slow, and very disappointing considering the talent involved. The talky screenplay by Tom Buckingham, F Hugh Herbert and […]
Great classic Thirties screwball comedy stuff, the 1937 film True Confession is vintage Carole Lombard, teamed again with Fred MacMurray. Director Wesley Ruggles’s extremely entertaining 1937 screwball comedy is Carole Lombard’s fourth movie with Fred […]
Anthony Hopkins and Ryan Gosling crackle in the 2007 legal thriller Fracture as rich aeronautics engineer Ted Crawford, who has devised the perfect murder of his cheating wife, and Willy Beachum, the cocky young public […]
Director Edward Dmytryk’s lurid 1964 drama is an unseemly but suitably overwrought version of Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel, doubtless sparked off by the real-life story of Lana Turner’s daughter Cheryl killing Lana’s lover in 1958. (She was […]
Director Cyril Frankel’s 1960 British mystery horror drama is taken from Roger Emerson Garis’s play The Pony Cart. Gwen Watford and Patrick Allen star as English married couple Sally and Peter Carter, who start a […]