December 23, 2024

Film reviews, TV reviews and tales of film making and festivals

Cousin Bette (1998, dir. Des McAnuff)

Cousin Bette was the film debut of Des McAnuff, the theatre and opera director (and until 2014 artistic director of the Stratford Shakespeare Festival in Ontario) noted for his showmanship, and his flamboyant treatment of […]

A Stolen Life (1946, dir. Curtis Bernhardt)

Why call it a “guilty pleasure”? A Stolen Life is an uneven but enormously watchable entertainment that many viewers return to for a variety of satisfactions which many of those viewers themselves might find it […]

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