Favourite Films – Page 2 – Maureen Younger

Film Review: Mr Smith Goes To Washington

If you’re ever feeling like you’re up against it and in need of some welcome reassurance that it will all work out in the end, then you can do no better than watch either one of Frank Capra’s most famous films, It’s a Wonderful Life or Mr Smith Goes to Washington. (Failing that an enormous […]

Film Review: It Happened One Night

It Happened One Night was made in 1934 and directed by one of my favourite directors, Frank Capra. It stars Clark Gable as a washed up newspaper reporter, Peter Warne and Claudette Colbert as a spoilt and pampered heiress. Neither of the leads were enthralled about making the film, particularly Colbert who insisted before agreeing […]

Film Review: Green Zone

Green Zone is set in Iraq around the time of Bush’s now infamous speech aboard USS Abraham Lincoln where he infamously stated – “In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” As my knowledge of Iraqi politics is probably only equalled in its paucity by my knowledge of quantum physics […]