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Re-make fever strikes again, and with even more lamentable results than usual. Will someone please stop Kenneth Branagh before he directs again?

Yet more corruption in the LAPD makes you wonder if there are criminals in Los Angeles who aren’t wearing a badge

Les Demoiselles de Rochefort—which the American distributors are translating as The Young Girls of Rochefort—was directed by the late Jacques Demy in 1967 and now appears recut and restored by Demy’s widow, Agnes Varda. It is a strange—indeed, sometimes hilariously weird—but oddly charming French attempt at a Hollywood musical which stars the young Catherine Deneuve…

A feel-good celebration of the gay agenda and in particular the fundamental principle that no obligation must be allowed to take precedence over the free expression of one’s sexual nature

A charming French romantic comedy that is also something of a throwback