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Director Jack Conway’s 1947 MGM black and white romantic comedy drama The Hucksters stars a notable line-up in Clark Gable, Deborah Kerr, Sydney Greenstreet, Adolphe Menjou, Ava Gardner, Keenan Wynn and Edward Arnold, and is based […]
Floundering Flanders ‘I had been tricked once by that Cheat called love, but the Game was over.’ Paramount clearly wanted to turn Daniel Defoe’s 1722 novel into a cash-in on the success of 1963’s Tom Jones […]
Director Henry Levin’s 1952 Belles on Their Toes is the too-sentimental but still amusing and appealing sequel to the sharper 1950 family comedy Cheaper by the Dozen. [Spoiler alert] There is no Clifton Webb this […]
Director Philippe Mora’s 1984 A Breed Apart is a fascinating, intelligent movie and stars a fine quartet in Rutger Hauer, Powers Boothe. Kathleen Turner, and Donald Pleasence. Avaricious billionaire collector J P Whittier (Pleasence) hires […]
Director Don Siegel’s intriguing and offbeat but rather ploddingly handled 1949 Warner Bros black and white romantic drama Night unto Night stars Ronald Reagan, Viveca Lindfors, Rosemary DeCamp and Broderick Crawford. Lindfors and Reagan play […]
Steve McQueen’s 2018 cinema version of Lynda La Plante’s masterly 1983 British TV mini-series Widows is both a posh art film and an exciting mainstream heist thriller, but only just. Something is lost on the […]
The small but perfectly performed and super talented Anna Kendrick stars in director Paul Feig’s likeable 2018 mystery crime drama A Simple Favor [A Simple Favour] as homely vlogger Stephanie Smothers, who seeks to uncover the truth […]