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Tag: 1940s

Film Review Retrospective

BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)

Meeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.

by Cian McGrath 24th November 202524th November 2025
Film Review Retrospective

FANTASIA (1940)

A series of eight famous pieces of classical music, conducted by Leopold Stokowski and interpreted in animation by Walt Disney's team of artists.

by Rachel Dvorak 8th November 20258th November 2025
Film Review Retrospective

CHILDREN OF PARADISE (1945)

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.

by Lance Li 19th March 202520th March 2025
Film Review Retrospective

PINOCCHIO (1940)

A living puppet, with the help of a cricket as his conscience, must prove himself worthy to become a real boy.

by Cian McGrath 21st February 202521st February 2025
Film Review Retrospective

THE GRAPES OF WRATH (1940)

An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California...

by Quinn Francis 23rd January 202523rd January 2025
Film Review Retrospective

THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (1940)

Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, not realising they're also falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.

by Lance Li 20th January 202520th January 2025
Film Review Retrospective

MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944)

Young love and childish fears highlight a year in the life of a turn-of-the-century family up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

by Conall McManus 20th November 2024
Film Review Retrospective

ADAM’S RIB (1949)

A woman's attempted murder of her husband results in quarrels in the lives of a pair of happily married lawyers who end up on opposite sides of the case in court.

by Conall McManus 15th November 202415th November 2024
Film Review Retrospective

STRAY DOG (1949)

A rookie homicide detective tries to find his stolen Colt pistol during a sweltering summer.

by Conall McManus 17th October 202417th October 2024
Film Review Physical Media

Produced by Val Lewton: I WALKED WITH A ZOMBIE & THE SEVENTH VICTIM (1943)

Val Lewton, a master of horror, created two chilling films that explore the unseen and the unknown, turning our fears into haunting experiences.

by Remy Dean 12th October 202412th October 2024
Film Review Retrospective

LATE SPRING (1949)

Several people try to talk a 27-year-old woman into marrying, but all she wants is to keep on caring for her widowed father.

by Conall McManus 23rd September 202423rd September 2024
Film Review Retrospective

A CANTERBURY TALE (1944)

In an English village where the past seems still alive, three strangers try to solve a peculiar mystery.

by Barnaby Page 4th September 20244th September 2024
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