The Girl (2012)
If you’re not a fan of Alfred Hitchcock then it might be best to shut off now. Responsible for some of the 20th century’s most iconic films – Rebecca (1940), [...]
Biography
Kiss the Water (2013)
When someone is the subject matter of a film memoir, they must have a magical quality if they are never physically seen – either in person or in the form of archive [...]
To Walk with Lions (1999)
To Walk with Lions is one of those films which leaves you feeling bad if you’re not enthusiastic about it. Directed by Carl Schultz and starring Richard Harris, [...]
FEATURE: William Desmond Taylor – A Hollywood Mystery
Legendary actress Bette Davis once summed the business of Hollywood up by saying “Acting should be bigger than life. Scripts should be bigger than life. It should all [...]
Vito (2011)
Some films though hard to watch, make essential, enlightening viewing. Vito, the biographic documentary by director Jeffrey Schwarz about the American film journalist [...]
FEATURE – MARILYN MONROE, A CANDLE IN THE WIND!
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.” Marilyn Monroe was a woman who clearly practised what she preached. Not only one of [...]
FEATURE – ESCAPE ARTIST, THE LIFE OF DOUGLAS SIRK
“This, anyhow, is what enchants me about Sirk: this delirious mixture of medieval and modern, sentimentality and subtlety, tame compositions and frenzied [...]
FEATURE – CARY GRANT, MR METROSEXUAL
If one man epitomised cinema’s idea of sophistication, it was surely Cary Grant; it could be said Grant invented metrosexuality before modern day stars like George [...]
THE COUTURE COLLECTION
Twice a year the circus that is the world of high fashion trundles its way around America and Europe. You probably can’t afford the couture clothing of the [...]
