The Daughter (2015) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Actor and theatre director Simon Stone staged his modernised version of Henrik Ibsen’s The Wild Duck for Sydney’s Belvoir Street …
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Byzantium (2012) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
A vampire film directed by Neil Jordan, starring wonder girls Gemma Arterton and Saoirse Ronan, might have been the stuff …
Atlantis, The Lost Continent (1961) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
This often tedious quasi-science fiction saga stands as perhaps the nadir of George Pal’s reign as the leading producer of …
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960) Movie Review & Film summary,Cast
Although it does not lack some pat, familiar refrains of both the popular theatre and filmmaking of its era, Delbert …
The Banquet (Ye yan, 2006) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
An altogether more persuasive and involving attempt to meld classical tragedy and wire-fu action than Zhang Yimou’s tiresome and overblown …
His Girl Friday (1940) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. . Random and unimportant thoughts on a well-regarded classic: Memories of the excruciatingly bland and forced recycling job that …
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. .Though it drags the weighty baggage of a prestige production somewhat at odds with its life-on-the-edge subject matter, Diary …
Frost/Nixon (2008) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Like Peter Morgan’s earlier The Queen (2006), Frost/Nixon is a spectacularly unimportant and specious piece of dramaturgy posing as incisive …
Command Decision (1948) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. .Command Decision could today be regarded as a companion piece, after a fashion, to the following year’s superior Twelve …
Carnal Knowledge (1971) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
. Could be Mike Nichols’ best film (or is it Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Discuss). An acerbic, unforgiving, frank …
