Mostly Film revisits Frances Grahl‘s piece on the 1963 epic, Cleopatra
Was Cleopatra gorgeous? In a gown of gold? Langston Hughes
Mostly Film revisits Frances Grahl‘s piece on the 1963 epic, Cleopatra
Was Cleopatra gorgeous? In a gown of gold? Langston Hughes
MostlyFilm returns to MarvMarsh losing the shirt off his back
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The West End revival of 42nd Street is a musical for the Strictly generation, says Viv Wilby

MostlyFilm revisits Josephine Grahl‘s affectionate take on the blurring of life and dreams
Continue reading Life is but a dream: Les Enfants du Paradis Revisited
MostlyFilm revisits Phil Concannon‘s enlightening piece on DW Griffith’s Birth Of A Nation
Continue reading Rewriting History with Lightning – DW Griffith’s Birth of a Nation
Spank The Monkey doesn’t usually enjoy movies about children, but he’ll make an exception for Lone Wolf and Cub
In Feminine Iconology Revisted Part One, MostlyFilm brought you the icons of the silver screen from the Golden Age: one writer, one actress, one decade. In Part Two we moved through Hollywood’s 1970s renaissance to the present day.
How times have changed! Times have changed – right? This post covers the 1970s, 1980s, 1990s, 2000s (and the 2000s – so fresh we did them twice!)
The 101st International Women’s Day took place in March 2012. To mark that hugely important milestone, MostlyFilm dedicated two days to some of the most iconic, glorious females in Hollywood. One writer, one actress, one decade. You’ll have to imagine that a single person can represent an entire gender for an entire ten year span. Bear with us on that, whilst we revisit the 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s and 1960s.
The year 2016 was a big one for movies about jazz, it seems. Before the release of La La Land (where Ryan Gosling saves jazz from Death By John Legend), Don Cheadle’s Miles Ahead was released in the UK in June, followed closely in July by Born to be Blue. MostlyFilm’s Sarah Slade counts beats to the bar and claps the rhythm for both films