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Director George Stevens’s intelligent, thoughtful and amusing 1942 romantic comedy stars Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn in their first screen partnership that was to last 25 years and produce nine movies. The duo kick up […]
The legendary chiller king Val Lewton produces director Mark Robson’s deliciously brooding and sinister 1943 film noir-style melodrama about a group of Satanists in Greenwich Village uncovered by the heroine Mary Gibson (Kim Hunter), after she arrives […]
Julia Roberts and Nick Nolte star as Chicago newspaper reporter rivals Sabrina Peterson and Peter Brackett, who, instead of competing, reluctantly link up after a suspicious train crash to investigate the mystery. Co-writer/director Charles Shyer’s […]
Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1958 British-made Technicolor romantic comedy Indiscreet is glitzy fluff, filmed where it is set in London. It finds the ideal star pairing in Cary Grant and Ingrid Bergman, who put polish on the piece. Grant plays […]
‘I am the camera eye. I am the mechanical eye. I am the machine which shows you the world as only I can see it.’ Director Dziga Vertov’s influential, light-hearted, fascinating 1929 Russian abstract documentary […]
Co-writer/director Gary Sherman’s 1988 third episode brings back only Heather O’Rourke and Zelda Rubinstein from the original two movies. JoBeth Williams and Craig T Nelson having bailed out of part 3, their haunted screen daughter […]
Director P J Hogan’s delicious 1997 romcom finally provided a huge hit again for Julia Roberts, turning in a very decent comedy performance as a devious journalist who decides she wants her best buddy (Dermot […]