I Am Curious: Too Sexy for U.S. Customs

Börje Ahlstedt and Lena Nyman. Photo: Sandrew When this film reached the United States in the late 1960s, there was controversy. U.S. Customs had the film impounded and it remained…

A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding 

Prince Richard (Ben Lamb) of Aldovia is set to marry his bride, Amber (Rose McIver), but the country is rocked by protests against the royal family. This sequel is a…

The Holiday Calendar 

Photographer Abby Sutton (Kat Graham) receives an old advent calendar as a gift and begins to believe it has the ability to predict what’s going to happen to her each…

Bohemian Rhapsody 

This biopic of the legendary rock band Queen and its singer Freddie Mercury was long in the making and suffered from a troubled production. The final results aren’t exactly bad,…

Red: Listening and Judging

Samuel Le Bihan and Irène Jacob. Photo: Canal+ We already knew this would be Krzysztof Kieslowski’s last film, because he had said as much after its premiere. Two years later,…

Blue 

When her composer husband and their daughter are killed in a car crash, Julie de Courcy (Juliette Binoche) tries to isolate herself from her previous life… The first chapter of…

Barry Lyndon: Life of a Doomed Man

Photo: Warner After A Clockwork Orange (1971), Stanley Kubrick became interested in adapting a novel from the 1800s, William Makepeace Thackeray’s ”Vanity Fair”. When he found out that a TV…

Henry V: Branagh and the Bard

Photo: Renaissance Films When I was a teenager, my class was treated to a performance of Shakespeare’s ”Hamlet”. It was not a bad production; the young leading actors later became…

Gone With the Wind: Fall of the Old South

Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh. Photo: MGM Last August, news came that a cinema in Memphis, Tennessee had decided not to screen Gone With the Wind because of numerous complaints.…

Christmas Inheritance 

The wealthy owner of a gift business sends his spoilt daughter (Eliza Taylor) to a small town called Snow Falls where she must deliver a special Christmas card to her…