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…

A Christmas Prince 

Young journalist Amber Moore (Rose McIver) finally gets a chance to cover something real – a press conference in the country of Aldovia where Prince Richard (Ben Lamb) is set…

Fanny and Alexander: Dark Christmas

Bertil Guve. Photo: SFI Ingmar Bergman would have been 100 years old next year, so in his honor Stockholm’s leading department store dedicated their annual Christmas window display to Fanny…

45 Years: Solid and Fragile

Tom Courtenay and Charlotte Rampling. Photo: BFI My parents have been married for 44 years. I’m fascinated by couples who have stayed together that many decades. I find it almost…

L’Avventura: The Mystery of Anna

Gabriele Ferzetti and Monica Vitti. Photo: Cino del Duca The Cannes film festival is famous for its tumultuous screenings, but I wonder if there has ever been a change of…

Jackie: After Dealey Plaza

Caspar Phillipson and Natalie Portman. Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures Chilean director Pablo Larraín was about to make his first American film, but had doubts. He had been offered a biopic…

Moonlight: Three Shades of Blue

Alex Hibbert and Mahershala Ali. Photo: A24 I love the poster for this film. The colors are deep shades of blue, purple and cyan and the three faces of the…

No 

In 1988, dictator Augusto Pinochet allows the people of Chile to vote on the future of his regime; ad man René Saavedra (Gael García Bernal) is hired by the opposition…

Looking 

One of the most explicit TV series ever made about gay men followed a group of friends in San Francisco, with focus on the 29-year-old game designer Patrick (Jonathan Groff)…