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Play It Again – Spartacus

Play It Again – Spartacus. Starring Kirk Douglas, Peter Ustinov, and Laurence Olivier. Directed by Stanley Kubrick. Rated PG. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which our classic-film connoisseurs revisit a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has […]

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Alfred Hitchcock’s Rebecca to be remade

DreamWorks and Working Title are gearing up to remake Alfred Hitchcock‘s Best Picture winning 1940 film Rebecca, Variety reports. The film – Hitchcock’s first American endeavour – starred Laurence Olivier as a widower whose second wife is forever being unfavourably compared to the first. Ironically, the world will soon be able to say the ‘2nd […]

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Play It Again – Rebecca

Play It Again – Rebecca. By Jess Lomas. Play It Again is a weekly feature in which classic-film connoisseur Jess Lomas revisits a revered motion picture from the annals of movie history, to see if it holds up… or if it has aged terribly. And yes, it takes its name from a famously misquoted Casablanca […]

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