This deserves to be much better known than it is. It is a really fun little comedy with Edward G Robinson on top form as a gangster who decides to get out of the business while he's on top when prohibition ends. His main ambition is to mix with high society, so there's plenty of fish-out-water fun to be had from showing how his Chicago gangster manners clash with his new setting. Robinson is obviously relishing playing the gangster stereotype…
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Cursed 2004
Enjoyable J-horror b-movie. There's no coherent narrative as such, but it does have a nice anthology kind of vibe, based around a convenience store with some decidedly odd owners. Some tense scenes (particularly the woman being chased into her apartment by a sledgehammer-wielding nutcase), some decent scares and a bit of weirdness. Creepy fun if you're not expecting much.
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The More the Merrier 1943
Why am I wasting my time watching any film that does not have Jean Arthur in it?
A scrumptious sugarpuff of a film in the best possible way: I adored it. Jean Arthur is absolute magic. She has such a talent for comedy, both physically and in her delivery, and I love everything about her. She looks so cute here, too - in her work outfits, in her stripey pyjamas, and that supercute playsuit when she's up on the roof!…
