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Felix Holt, the Radical, George Eliot – Description in comments. #Classicliterature 💙📚
January 11, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Felix Holt, the Radical, George Eliot – Description in comments. #Classicliterature 💙📚
Witchfinder General a.k.a The Conqueror Worm (1968) 🎥
Witchfinder General a.k.a The Conqueror Worm (1968)
Witchfinder General (to give the movie its original British name) is an example of how sometimes imagination can triumph over budgetary limitations. It seems astonishing to think of it, but some mo…
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January 11, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Witchfinder General a.k.a The Conqueror Worm (1968) 🎥
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle – Full description in the comments. #LiteraryClassics 💙📚
January 10, 2026 at 6:36 PM
A Study in Scarlet, Arthur Conan Doyle – Full description in the comments. #LiteraryClassics 💙📚
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) 🎥
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006)
The Wind that Shakes the Barley was a surprise hit for director Ken Loach, a man who has always held a niche appeal among cinemagoers. It brought in $25.7 million dollars at the box office, and was…
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January 10, 2026 at 6:13 PM
The Wind that Shakes the Barley (2006) 🎥
It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis (full description in comments) #ClassicBooks
January 9, 2026 at 6:36 PM
It Can’t Happen Here, Sinclair Lewis (full description in comments) #ClassicBooks
Winchester ’73 (1950) 🎥
Winchester ’73 (1950)
It is possible that if James Stewart had retired in 1949, his reputation as an actor would have been very different. Certainly Stewart felt that Winchester ‘73 had rescued and redefined his career.…
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January 9, 2026 at 6:14 PM
Winchester ’73 (1950) 🎥
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) 🎥
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971)
For over 30 years it seemed as if there would never be another movie that was quite like The Wizard of Oz. Somehow that 1939 Technicolour fantasy mingled all its disparate ingredients together in a…
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January 8, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (1971) 🎥
Wild Strawberries (1957) 🎥
Wild Strawberries (1957)
Behind the straightforward narrative structure of Ingmar Bergman’s 1957 movie, Wild Strawberries lie a number of mysteries. There are two dream sequences in the film which the viewer is left to int…
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January 7, 2026 at 6:02 PM
Wild Strawberries (1957) 🎥
The Wild Bunch (1969) 🎥
The Wild Bunch (1969)
John Wayne was dismayed by the release of The Wild Bunch, because he thought that it destroyed the myth of the Old West. He was perfectly correct to feel this way. In place of the traditional weste…
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January 6, 2026 at 5:56 PM
The Wild Bunch (1969) 🎥
White Zombie (1932) 🎥
White Zombie (1932)
White Zombie occupies a curious position in movie history. In some respects it might be said to be a reactionary movie. The Halperin brothers were obliged to work in the new medium of talkies, and …
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January 5, 2026 at 5:42 PM
White Zombie (1932) 🎥
White Heat (1949) 🎥
White Heat (1949)
White Heat marked something of a reluctant comeback for James Cagney. The popular actor with the boyish face and brash charm had made his name in the 1930s, when he appeared in gangsters movies suc…
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January 4, 2026 at 5:38 PM
White Heat (1949) 🎥
Collected Poems, John Keats - Description in comments #Classicbooks 💙📚
January 3, 2026 at 6:46 PM
Collected Poems, John Keats - Description in comments #Classicbooks 💙📚
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) 🎥
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962)
Much attention has been given to the damage done by bad parenting. Psychologists and psychiatrists have made entire careers from it – the harm caused to people by the actions of their mother and fa…
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January 3, 2026 at 6:01 PM
What Ever Happened to Baby Jane (1962) 🎥
2. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka – Description in comments. #ClassicBooks 💙📗
January 2, 2026 at 5:10 PM
2. Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka – Description in comments. #ClassicBooks 💙📗
1. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy – Description in comments.💙📗#ClassicBooks
January 2, 2026 at 4:53 PM
1. The Kreutzer Sonata, Leo Tolstoy – Description in comments.💙📗#ClassicBooks
Went the Day Well? (1942) 🎥
Went the Day Well? (1942)
The best war movies are often those that contain something to shock or surprise the viewer. War movies often have a limited appeal to audiences because of their subject matter, and predictability …
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January 2, 2026 at 4:27 PM
Went the Day Well? (1942) 🎥
Wallace & Gromit in ‘A Cheesy Pun’ – Five Works by Nick Park 🎥
Wallace & Gromit in ‘A Cheesy Pun’ – Five Works by Nick Park
I am neither a nationalist nor a regionalist. I feel no particular national or civic pride for the place of my birth. Nonetheless, I identify with my country and hometown, and it is hard not to fee…
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January 1, 2026 at 6:25 PM
Wallace & Gromit in ‘A Cheesy Pun’ – Five Works by Nick Park 🎥
Volver (2006) 🎥
Volver (2006)
Within Volver is the material for two highly charged films – a Hitchcockian thriller about murder, complete with an oversized knife as the murder weapon, and a melodramatic ghost story about a moth…
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December 31, 2025 at 4:36 PM
Volver (2006) 🎥
Movies of the Damned (Village of the Damned 1960, Children of the Damned 1964) 🎥
Movies of the Damned (Village of the Damned 1960, Children of the Damned 1964)
John Wyndham was not an especially prolific writer, but a number of his science fiction novels have been adapted for television and cinema with variable results. Perhaps the book that has been most…
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December 30, 2025 at 5:35 PM
Movies of the Damned (Village of the Damned 1960, Children of the Damned 1964) 🎥
Victim (1961) 🎥
Victim (1961)
This is the second part of a two-part article I am writing about Basil Dearden’s films, Sapphire and Victim. In Part 1, I provided a general introduction and a review of Sapphire. Click here …
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December 29, 2025 at 5:50 PM
Victim (1961) 🎥
I can't help thinking that Franz Kafka would have loved the Google AI attempt at analysing his short story, 'The Great Wall of China'.
December 28, 2025 at 9:03 PM
I can't help thinking that Franz Kafka would have loved the Google AI attempt at analysing his short story, 'The Great Wall of China'.
Vertigo (1958) 🎥
Vertigo (1958)
Vertigo can seem like a cold, clinical and heavily-plotted film. There is also an argument for viewing it as a darkly romantic and passionate love story. Only here the love is unrequited. Judy Bar…
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December 28, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Vertigo (1958) 🎥
Vera Cruz (1954) 🎥
Vera Cruz (1954)
Robert Aldrich’s 1954 western, Vera Cruz has been described as the first spaghetti western. It is not a spaghetti western of course, but it was an early indicator of what the western was to become …
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December 27, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Vera Cruz (1954) 🎥
Les Vampires (1915-16) 🎥
Les Vampires (1915-16)
The days when serial dramas were shown at the cinema are long since over. Most people are now too young to remember seeing any of them. Anyone who has gone back to look at old serials will discover…
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December 26, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Les Vampires (1915-16) 🎥
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 🎥
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Frank Capra’s fantasy comedy, It’s a Wonderful Life is the quintessential Christmas movie. It was released on Christmas Day. The story was based on a greetings card. It takes place at Christmas. Ye…
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December 25, 2025 at 7:06 PM
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) 🎥