On Moonlight Bay (1951)

There’s no question that Shine director Scott Hicks’s Snow Falling on Cedars is well-named. The weather — not only snow but fog and rain and looming clouds over the glorious landscapes of San Pedro Island in coastal Washington state — is undoubtedly the star of the show. Unfortunately, this is because the weather is mainly…

A thrilling, true-life account of American heroism in Afghanistan in 2005 and an end-around Hollywood’s leftist politics

A real treat for fans of Rowan Atkinson’s Mr Bean — and one that will make fans of those who aren’t yet

The Dinner Game, as the untranslatable Dîner de Cons is awkwardly but decorously rendered, is an uproarious French farce by Francis Veber, co-author of La Cage Aux Folles and creator on his own of a number of other plays and films in a similar style. It tells the story of Pierre Brochant (Thierry Lhermitte), a…

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