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The morning after the night before, down-to-earth sleuth Danny Harrison (Edward Arnold) investigates a murder at a party involving hard-drinking upper-class twits, all of whom were so pie-eyed that they can’t remember last night at all, […]
Little known director Arthur H Nadel churns out a mediocre, very dull, truly tepid 1967 Elvis Presley musical which deservedly hit the lower half of cinema double bills. Shelley Fabares is the girl cursed with the […]
Director Katharine Round’s extremely big-hearted and well-meaning planet-saving documentary about global inequality is thoroughly engrossing, intelligent and provocative. Her film is inspired by the book The Spirit Level by Richard Wilkinson and Kate Pickett. Through their […]
Director George Stevens’s 1935 romantic drama offers the young Hepburn grabs one of her best opportunities as Alice Adams, a pushy, snobbish, spikey, upwardly mobile young woman who catches the eye of eligible society bachelor […]
Writer-director Terrence Malick’s second movie after his impressive debut with Badlands in 1973 is this startlingly and spectacularly beautiful 1978 movie focusing on a ménage à trois love story set among the wheatfields of the […]
Gillian Anderson gives a knockout performance as the romantic but eventually tragic Lily Bart, in British director Terence Davies’s exquisite 2000 film adaptation of the early-20th-century-set novel by Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth. One […]
William Wyler’s elegant 1949 film of Henry James’s 1880 novel Washington Square, set in 19th century New York, is supremely satisfying. The Heiress got great reviews and won four Oscars, with Olivia de Havilland taking […]