Jimmy Stewart
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Maureen Dowd: How did we go from Abraham Lincoln to a Sharknado reject?
- US
- November 1, 2020, 17:15
When I was growing up, my brother Michael took me to see old movies at the American Film Institute. An American in Paris. Shane. Mr Smith Goes to Wash(...)

Sean Connery the man has died. Sean Connery the indestructible legend lives on
- Film
- October 31, 2020
It is just two months since Sean Connery, who has died, celebrated his 90th birthday. The appreciations will have given him some sense of how subseque(...)

Dating Amber: Agreeable comedy about a fake romance in 1990s Ireland
- Film
- June 5, 2020, 05:00
One could teach a class on romantic-comedy structure using David Freyne’s agreeable second feature as sole template. The couple “meet cute”. At first (...)

Beyond Netflix: where to find Golden Age classic movies
- Film
- March 21, 2020, 05:00
For reasons that shouldn’t need to be reiterated, audiences are paying greater attention than ever to the entertainment options on streaming services.(...)

Some Like it Hot, A Star is Born, The Wizard of Oz ... and other great remakes
- Film
- June 6, 2019, 20:18
There is still a myth abroad that the remake is always a pale copy of the original. It does little good to again point out that the most famous versio(...)

Maureen Dowd: We are in a war over what kind of America we want
- US
- November 26, 2018, 01:00
My older brother Michael taught me many things. He taught me to hold vinyl records gingerly at the edges, so I wouldn’t smudge them, and how to wipe (...)

Hell is other people and other people can’t keep to themselves
- Culture
- July 13, 2018, 05:00
Everybody has some notion of what the #PlaneBae story tells us. We share too much. We believe too much. We enjoy hating things. We can’t mind our own (...)

Classics to comedies: plan your Christmas movie viewing
- Film
- December 5, 2017, 05:00
Spare a thought for the poor souls who fly headlong into the festive season without anything resembling a plan. These are the damned masses who end up(...)

2016: The 50 best films on Netflix
- Film
- July 29, 2016, 12:30
A few years ago, we published a guide to the best films available on Netflix. It proved to be one of our most popular stories ever. Since then many n(...)

Paterson Cannes review: Pure, filmic poetry
- Film
- May 16, 2016, 10:48
Until this week, Paterson, New Jersey was probably best known for providing the subject and title of a long poem by William Carlos Williams that aimed(...)