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Film took off in a million directions during the 1950s, so we’ve pulled together a list. Here are the best 1950s movies:

Research for this series began with an assumption that horse racing constituted animal cruelty. Worst was ‘bush’ racing: often bareback on rough veld or rocky roads with unshod horses in poor condition raced for money. I heard it was going on in Mamre – a village up the Cape West Coast – and we...

PTSD: The Walking Wounded While there have been numerous films of both the fiction and non-fiction variety to ...

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Anthony Borrows stars as Liam, a seven-year-old Irish boy suffering mutely. By Anthony Borrows, Contributor Los Angeles Times film reviewer Kenneth Turan wryly observed that Liam, director Stephen Frears’s British film about an Irish family in 1930s Liverpool, “does a better job of re-creating the ambience of Frank McCourt’s Angela’s Ashes than that film did.” Avoiding the dramatic and visual monotony that makes Alan Parker’s 1999 film of Angela’s Ashes such an unrelievedly dr...