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The Queen of Crime, Agatha Christie has had a long and flourishing legacy in the form of screen adaptations of her many novels and stage plays. There have

Robert Franklin Stroud was not a man known for his patience with his fellow man, a short-tempered and violent criminal, a murderer whose difficult childhood perhaps shaped what

South Boston, St Patrick’s Day, a time for family, a time for celebration, a time for remembrance of the past and the things which define a community; twin

The other boys mock Griffin, saying he has angels in his head; in another time and place he might be labelled a dreamer, but in the snowy hills

Even on the crowded streets of London Lisa Baumer stands out, confident, statuesque, stylish in her grey suit and red hat but aloof; she is also soon to

A New York filmmaker whose works have rarely strayed far from those streets, while an allegorical vampire tale might not have been a project expected of Abel Ferrara,

After many years of waiting, one of the best unsung genre films of the 1980s finally gets the release it deserves as Geoff Murphy’s modestly-budgeted but highly effective

Born in New York in 1913, Stanley Kramer was an American filmmaker, a producer and director who chronicled his troubled times even as he looked back to the

Isolated on a New Zealand sheep farm beset by wind and rain, deluged with mud and surrounded by steep hills, the world of eleven-year-old Lisa Peers, known as

“You’re nothing but a pack of cards,” as Alice once pointedly said, growing tired of Wonderland and her infuriating confrontation with the Queen of Hearts and her antagonistic