Reviews by Caro Ness

Order by: Date, A–Z

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  Echo Park, L.A. (2006)

  Rites of passage for Mexican- American teenagers in Los Angeles.
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  The History Of Mr Polly (1949)

  Victorian comedy about a hapless shop owner.
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  CSA: The Confederate States Of America (2004)

  What if the American south had won the Civil War?
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  Pittsburgh (1942)

  Review preview for Pittsburgh

  This film is worth seeing for curiosity value more than anything else and also for the cinematography which depicts the hard life of the coal miner particularly well.

  A high-class "countess" helps two coal miners make a mint... but what is the price of success? Out to own now as part of Marlene Dietrich: The Movie Collection 18-disc box set.
• The Sandbaggers: The Complete Second Series (1980)

  Review preview for The Sandbaggers: The Complete Second Series

  Not explosive action, but smouldering intrigue and skulduggery, with very little outdoor camera work, and much more enthralling as a result.

  The continuing intrigue and tension of a special unit of British Intelligence during the Cold War.
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  The Dead (1987)

  Review preview for The Dead

  I defy anyone not to be moved by this performance.

  Superior adaptation of James Joyce short story, about guests at an Epiphany party.
• Juste Avant La Nuit (1971)

  Review preview for Juste Avant La Nuit

  This is a masterful film about the meaning of friendship and the darker sides to human nature.

  Sexual betrayal, forgiveness and murder in a small, suburban town.
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  Union City (1980)

  Review preview for Union City

  For me the film promised to truly shock and yet I felt somehow cheated as it unravelled.

  Milk snatching leads to murder.
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  The Motorcycle Diaries (2004)

  Coming of age drama based on the writings of a young Che Guevara.
• The Sandbaggers: The Complete First Series (1978)

  Review preview for The Sandbaggers: The Complete First Series

  Still packs a hefty punch, due to its tacit understanding of the political dynamics.

  Seventies spy series that has aged like fine wine.
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  Young At Heart (1954)

  Review preview for Young At Heart

  This proved to be the only film that Day and Sinatra made together and judging by the great chemistry they have on screen, it is a crying shame.

  The only film that Doris Day and Frank Sinatra appeared together, although they sang apart.
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  Who Killed Bambi? (2003)

  Review preview for Who Killed Bambi?

  While watching the film, you almost feel that you are seeing it from one remove apart; you are never sufficiently disturbed, or scared.

  A student nurse investigate the nighttime activities of a spooky doctor.
• The Sure Thing (1985)

  Review preview for The Sure Thing

  A film to treasure.

  A mismatched couple find love on a comic roadtrip.
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  The Barchester Chronicles (1982)

  Review preview for The Barchester Chronicles

  Rickman, as the ghastly Slope, turns in a performance of greasy ambition that beggars superlatives.

  Superior Anthony Trollope adaptation.
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  The Lady Eve (1941)

  Review preview for The Lady Eve

  Everything about this film marks it out as a masterpiece.

  Forties sex comedy at sea, with more twists than a tornado.
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  I Didn't Know You Cared (1975)

  Seventies sitcom about an extended family.
• Phone (2002)

  Review preview for Phone

  A pleasing psychological mystery, with a supernatural twist.

  Supernatural thriller about a journalist who becomes terrifed of her telephone.
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  Re: Joyce! (1991)

  Review preview for Re: Joyce!

  A wonderful wallow in nostalgia.

  Maureen Lipman celebrates the life and comedy of Joyce Grenfell.
• People I Know (2002)

  Review preview for People I Know

  The film deserves five stars for Pacino's performance alone, but relies too heavily upon him.

  Al Pacino is a New York publicist at the end of his rope.
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  Journey To Italy (1953)

  Review preview for Journey To Italy

  Since the film so closely follows the couple, it is vital that we feel this sense of alienation and despair, and feel it we do.

  A seminal film about a marriage in crisis.