Baz Lurhmann’s adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic novel The Great Gatsby is a visual firecracker and an ode to the opulence of the roaring 20s. As...

Most of you probably know about (or have seen) House of Cards, the American political thriller, set in Washington featuring the ruthless power-seeking couple, Frank...

Lumping Brideshead Revisited into our Silver Screen Revisited series makes sense logistically for us here at Mogg Towers, but it is a bit of a...

Alfred Hitchcock’s 1955 film To Catch a Thief will make you want to go to the French Riviera where the sun is always shining and...

I love these two films, which both have Michael Caine in the lead role, but beyond this are very different. The Italian Job is a mostly jolly,...

As much as any film I have ever seen, the 1974 screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s literary masterpiece does almost perfect justice to the novel....

I’ve seen this film dozens — no, scores — of times. There were several viewings when it was in the cinema in the autumn of...

“Dickie Greenleaf?!” “Who’s that?” “It’s Tom… Tom Ripley!” “Tom Ripley?” “We were at Princeton together.” “Okay… did we know each other?” “[…] Well… I knew...

The spotlight illuminates the face of Martin von Essenbeck (played by the inimitable Helmut Berger). It is the birthday of Martin’s grandfather, Joachim von Essenbeck,...