South Solitary (2010) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Shirley Barrett’s debut feature, 1996’s Love Serenade, won the Cannes Camera d’Or prize that year, and established her as an …
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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo (Män som hatar kvinnor, 2009) MovieReview & Film summary, Cast
An adaptation of the late Stieg Larsson’s first ‘Millennium’ series entry, originally entitled, with an obviousness that better befits the …
The Mask of Fu Manchu (1932) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Fu Manchu is a pop cultural figure as guilt-provoking as he is indelible and irresistible. His mixture of haughty, exotic …
Beat Girl (1959) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
This odd, lurid, often terrible, occasionally compelling film is one of the first attempts by British cinema to tackle youth …
Barbarella (1968) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Roger Vadim’s adaptation of Jean-Claude Forest’s bubblegum science-fantasy comic book is one of the late 1960s’ most iconic films, an …
Jeopardy (1953) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
What would you do if your husband was trapped under a wharf stanchion with the tide coming in and your …
Factotum (2005) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
The mythology of Charles Bukowski gets another go-round in this fitfully funny and acerbic, but shapeless and style-free, cut-rate Canadian-shot …
Redacted (2007) Movie Review & Film summary, Cast
Brian De Palma returns to his roots whilst simultaneously constructing one of the most angry, and far from subtle, films …
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 …
