Star Wars – Episode One: The Phantom Menace (1999) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Personally I think Lucas’ reinstituted series opener is zippy, gaudy, lightweight fun, obviously just a place-holder designed to keep the …
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Bend of the River (1952) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Anthony Mann was possibly second only to Akira Kurosawa in the ranks of filmmakers with a sense of tactile relationship …
D.O.A. (1950) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
March towards fate D.O.A. is an irritatingly near-great film. Rudolph Maté’s direction puts its head down and charges ahead, utilising …
Hotel du Nord (1938) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A fine Marcel Carné film from the age of fullest flowering for the poetic-realist movement. But it’s also not of …
Zatoichi The Outlaw (1967) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The popular hero of a long-running franchise sees his moral presumptions questioned and undermined, and his attempts to wipe out …
Arizona (1940) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Jean Arthur playing swaggering butch in leather britches with a big gun has entertainment value. Just not enough to make …
The Other Boleyn Girl (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
One of those films that you consider turning off a half-dozen times whilst watching it, and yet finish up liking …
One-Armed Swordsman (Dubei Dao, 1967) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
What a way to die – killed by the Mod Squad on an unrealistic snowy set. Shaw Brothers classics appeal …
I’m Not There (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
This one had the stink of a wankfest from Day One. Fifteen minutes in, I turned it off, my sense …
The Carey Treatment (1972) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Blake Edwards directs James Coburn in this entertaining but ridiculous murder-mystery, based on a Michael Crichton novel. The Carey Treatment …
