On Moonlight Bay (1951)

A proud vulgarization of Fitzgerald’s novel by Baz Luhrmann

An unexpectedly amusing variation on an old French theme

The Game, directed by David Fincher, may be one of those films about which it is possible to say virtually nothing without giving away an essential fact about it—a fact which a great many viewers would be very cross at me for having revealed. It always seems to me a very shallow sort of enjoyment…

James Bond? Isn’t he “the dude/Who lets the girl down before/The hero arrives”

Mrs Brown written by Jeremy Brock, directed by John Madden and starring Judi Dench as Queen Victoria and Billy Connolly as her servant, John Brown, is a Masterpiece Theatre costume drama, based fairly faithfully on true events, which has found its way onto the big screen and manages, in spite of all expectations, not to…

A delightful trip down memory lane for anyone with an interest in British “football” — i.e. soccer — of the 1970s