LIGHT MODE
DARK MODE
Most popular
The Florentine
Family first in Sidney Lumet’s movie Find Me Guilty, which traces the true story of New Jersey Mafioso Giacomo ‘Fat Jack’ di Norscio defending himself in the longest Mafia trial in U.S. history. Action man Vin Diesel tones down (and is unconvincingly made-up) to
At number 12 in the AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies, Sunset Boulevard has one of cinema’s greatest performances – Gloria Swanson as narcissistic, self-delusional, vicious and tragic diva Norma Desmond, arch femme fatale fading away in her gilded cage in Beverley Hills. Billy Wilder’
Stagey remake of the Broadway show about the Broadway show that was designed to be a flop and turned out to be a camp smash hit. Still intact are the famous show-stoppers ‘Springtime for Hitler’ and ‘Prisoners of Love’. The Producers is rejuvenated by the
Walk The Line is James Mangold’s conventional biopic about country/rock/blues legend Johnny Cash, played by Joaquin Phoenix, and his partner June, played by Reese Witherspoon. Unsurprisingly, the movie compresses the life into significant episodes of deprivation, determination, failure, success and excess, but it delivers an immaculate
Nicholas Cage is The Weather Man, depressed Chicago forecaster David Spritz, in Gore Verbinski’s downbeat satirical examination of low self esteem, urban angst, and mid-life neurosis. Michael Caine delivers a solid performance as his terminally disappointed father. As the tagline says: ‘... bring an umbrella.’
“It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife.” It is just as true that the ...
Lizbeth Scott is the femme fatale in this 1947 noir, playing opposite Humphrey Bogart. Hard-boiled dialogue and shady characters are staple fare for this genre, and a needlessly complicated plot is almost de rigueur. Dead Reckoning has it all. While decidedly B-movie standard, its overall mediocrity shouldn’
Another biopic of a contemporary American legend is Bennett Miller’s Capote, featuring the always watchable Philip Seymour Hoffman as the flamboyant writer researching his ‘non-fiction novel’ In Cold Blood, with devastating consequences to his health. Capote’s casual journalistic interest in the murder of
In Proof, Gwyneth Paltrow gives a memorable reprisal of her stage role (in the West End with the same director, John Madden) as Catherine, the daughter of a mad mathematician (Anthony Hopkins). Who is forced to come to terms with her late father’s legacy, possibly including his insanity,
Walk The Line is James Mangolds biopic about country/rock/blues legend Johnny Cash, played by Joaquin Phoenix, and his partner June, played by Reese Witherspoon. Unsurprisingly, the movie compresses the life into significant episodes of deprivation, determination, failure, success and excess, but it delivers an immaculate soundtrack, and surprisingly,
‘Their Love was a flame that destroyed!’ One of the best film noirs ever, The Postman Always Rings Twice was the third screen adaptation of James M. Cain’s novel about ...
Giacomo Casanova, the legendary lover and sexual adventurer, is played by versatile Heath Ledger in Lasse Hallström’s period comedy Casanova, filmed entirely in the romantic setting of Venice, and set in 1753. Tame by the standards of the man himself, the movie is a cheerfully anachronistic
Steven Gaghans’s monumental political thriller, Syriana, is the kind of film that allows you to get lost in its devilishly complicated plot yet not lose it because you are drawn so convincingly into the world it portrays. It is a world of international deals, corruption, terrorism and personal
Steven Gaghanss monumental political thriller is the kind of film that allows you to get lost in its devilishly complicated plot yet not lose it because you are drawn so convincingly into the world it portrays. It is a world of international deals, corruption, terrorism and personal struggles for justice
There never was a woman like Gilda! screams the tagline, and Rita Hayworth does this femme fatale full justice in a dark and devious story of jealousy and corruption in post-war Buenos Aires. Her famous striptease is only one of her provocative and seductive acts, and with the mnage-
Fritz Lang directs Joan Bennett as Alice Reed, the femme fatale of this 1945 psycho-drama, who lures the impeccable Edward G. Robinson as the gentle Professor Richard Wanley into her troubles. Blackmail, treachery and murder are the ingredients of this tense and claustrophobic noir classic.
Shanghai 1936 is the setting for the last Merchant-Ivory collaboration, The White Countess. The movie has all you would expect from this team (joined by Kazuo Ishiguro as screenwriter) in this story of exiles looking for a sense of purpose as the world shows signs of crashing down around
Another American icon, the cowboy, is given the revisionist treatment in Ang Lees moving and sensitive love story, Brokeback Mountain. But this is the love that dare not speak its name even today, let alone in the cleverly chosen recent past the movie is set in. Lee has decoded all
