[amazon_link asins=’B074R56JR6′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’d95f1c6b-4bdb-11e8-8fc7-f1ed17ed0822′]Based on the 1939 play by Philip Barry, adapted for the screen by Donald Ogden Stewart and an uncredited Waldo Salt, The Philadelphia Story is a high point for three Hollywood legends–Cary Grant (Operation Petticoat),…
[amazon_link asins=’B077R32LVQ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’5b13e1eb-4b26-11e8-afb0-85b8af461d7a’]Kicking off with a with a musical number that quickly draws you into a world of larger than life escapism, The Greatest Showman mimics the kind of over-the-top production numbers that help make La La…
[amazon_link asins=’B077Z82BGJ’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’2e6a4d0b-40ca-11e8-9b3f-fd24a7f4cb3b’]Filmed in 2015 and not released in the United States until December 22, 2017 (the same day as Star Wars: The Last Jedi), Father Figures tells the story of two fraternal twin brothers, Peter (Ed…
[amazon_link asins=’B076F3Y3H3′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’99e02af7-40c5-11e8-91a2-87b25fc2bdea’]In an era when sex and booze fueled antics were the focus of most films aimed at teens, Hughes was responsible for the of Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Some Kind of Wonderful, Ferris Bueller’s…
[amazon_link asins=’B077HKKCPL’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’b0eaace1-38f6-11e8-9745-9b49d2918b38′]Tony Richardson’s Tom Jones occupies an awkward space in cinema. Often sighted as being both influential and overpraised, its status as a classic, debatable. Released in 1963, did Tom Jones serve to reinvigorate British cinema…
[amazon_link asins=’B0788XVV6B’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’ddbd7625-36b2-11e8-b212-e1e2731f4d19′]Regarded by many as director Ken Russell’s (Lisztomania) greatest film, Women in Love is a bold adaptation of the classic D.H. Lawrence novel that, when released in 1969, both pushed the limits of what actors…
[amazon_link asins=’B077687NXT’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’aefbc0d9-3545-11e8-9b73-3fc2be6089f3′]Curtis Harrington is another name in a long a list of directors with links to Roger Corman. In 1961, Harrington made the low-budget, independent mermaid film Night Tide, and then was employed by Corman to…
[amazon_link asins=’B07885CY3T’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’c6af7157-3119-11e8-9a67-f5d983d3c315′]Coco–Pixar’s first non-sequel film since 2015’s The Good Dinosaur—tells a heartwarming story about the importance of family, while delivering the eye-popping visuals we’ve come to expect. Set in a small Mexican village, 12-year-old Miguel Rivera…
[amazon_link asins=’B0794XYM5W’ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’1aa58385-2a13-11e8-ab51-63093bf66997′]Based on the Ross MacDonald novel The Moving Target, is a star-driven Paul Newman, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) neo-noir. Released in 1966, The film was a solid hit, grossing nearly $12 million in…
[amazon_link asins=’B077TQNHF1′ template=’ProductAd’ store=’moviegazett03-20′ marketplace=’US’ link_id=’8a3d0d31-287d-11e8-b31a-df5f1a59ff92′]I, Tonya the latest film from director Craig Gillespie (Lars and the Real Girl), is based on the life of former U.S. figure skater Tonya Harding. A two-time Olympian, Harding is best known for her…