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Angel on the Amazon [Drums Along the Amazon] * (1948, George Brent, Vera Ralston, Brian Aherne, Constance Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 11,381

‘A Woman Cursed With Eternal Youth! The sullen killer of the jungles… and the woman who knew no fear! The story of their meeting and the strange events that followed!’: Angel on the Amazon [Drums […]

Jul, 11

Angel on My Shoulder **** (1946, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Anne Baxter) – Classic Movie Review 11,380

Director Archie Mayo’s 1946 fantasy drama film Angel on My Shoulder is based on a story by Harry Segall, and stars Paul Muni, Claude Rains and Anne Baxter. Angels and devils were popular in the […]

Jul, 10

Alita: Battle Angel **** (2019, Rosa Salazar, Christoph Waltz, Keean Johnson, Mahershala Ali, Eiza González) – Movie Review

As brought to us by the brilliantly creative minds at Weta Digital, a digital performance capture version of Rosa Salazar stars as the cybernetic character Alita in director Robert Rodriguez’s thoroughly entertaining romantic sci-fi action, adventure, Alita: Battle Angel. […]

Feb, 02

The Lady with a Lamp *** (1951, Anna Neagle, Michael Wilding, Gladys Young) – Classic Movie Review 8038

The romantic team of Anna Neagle and Michael Wilding returns in director Herbert Wilcox’s engrossing 1951 historical drama The Lady with a Lamp, an episodic and stately biography of the great English pioneer lady of nursing. Neagle […]

Jan, 20

Brother John ** (1971, Sidney Poitier, Will Geer, Bradford Dillman, Beverly Todd) – Classic Movie Review 7903

Director James Goldstone’s 1971 drama Brother John is a pleasant, well-meaning, though peculiar and not too entertaining nor enlightening little fantasy movie, very much of its period. Sidney Poitier stars as Brother John Kane, a […]

Dec, 15

Made in Heaven *** (1987, Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray) – Classic Movie Review 7084

Director Alan Rudolph’s appealing but minor 1987 movie Made in Heaven stars Timothy Hutton as Mike Shea, who dies while performing an heroic act but returns from Heaven where he has fallen for Annie Packert […]

May, 22

The Bishop’s Wife **** (1947, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester) – Classic Movie Review 6802

Hitchcock’s favourite actor Cary Grant (Suspicion) makes an awkward fit as an angel in The Bishop’s Wife (1947). The cinema’s best ever light comedian is always at his best in a subtle or ambiguous role and […]

Mar, 14

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