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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Midnight Lace (1960) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast

. Sub-Hitchcockian mystery yarn directed by David Miller. Doris Day plays a woman newly married to her family company’s chief ...
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