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Review of the debut film by Paul Andrew Williams, properly unpleasant and intensely dramatic drama mostly set on the south coast of Britain
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There are plenty of people who think of Jackie Chan as a martial artist who has squandered his gifts. Even they acknowledge the brilliance of Police Story,
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An appreciation of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Walt Disney's revolutionary feature from 1937 which turned his company into what it is today.
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A recommendation to see Jane Austen's most romantic story, directed by Roger Michell, en route to directing Notting Hill. Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds star
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There are several versions of John Buchan’s novel. The other two notable versions have Kenneth More and Robert Powell in the lead. But this one is the best.
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Based on the breakthrough novel by former spy John Le Carré, shot in black and white to suggest that espionage is unglamorous, dirty work and starring a
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Russell believed it to be his best work and it’s tempting to see it as at least partly an expression of his own persona – Delius the romantic, impetuous
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Back when cats wore hats, stills photographer Bert Stern, fresh from his famous shoot with Marilyn Monroe in the buff, went off to the 1958 Newport Jazz Festival and made a film about Louis Armstrong, Thelonious Monk, Georage Shearing, Dinah Washington, Anita O’Day, Mahalia Jackson, Jack Teagarden,
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Murnau's 1922 silent expressionist classic is one of movie-making defining moments. It borrowed its story wholesale from Bram Stoker's Dracula, gave it the