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Another Man’s Poison **½ (1951, Bette Davis, Gary Merrill, Emlyn Williams, Anthony Steel, Barbara Murray) – Classic Movie Review 10,345

‘She Had Everything You Could Give A Woman To Torment A Man!’ Bette Davis (fresh from her All About Eve triumph) and her Hollywood director Irving Rapper came to England to try their luck with […]

Sep, 24

The Brood*** (1979, Oliver Reed, Samantha Eggar, Art Hindle) – Classic Movie Review 8421

Writer-director David Cronenberg’s horrible but effective and imaginative 1979 Canadian sci-fi horror shocker The Brood stars Oliver Reed as mad psychiatrist Dr Hal Raglan, who attempts to free his patients of their neuroses by encouraging […]

May, 01

Fried Green Tomatoes *** (1991, Kathy Bates, Jessica Tandy, Mary Stuart Masterson, Mary-Louise Parker) – Classic Movie Review 8268

Director Jon Avnet’s very nice and sweet 1991 nostalgic drama Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Café [Fried Green Tomatoes] stars Kathy Bates as Evelyn Couch, a middle-aged glutton housewife who bumps into a jolly old […]

Mar, 19

Seven Sinners **** (1940, Marlene Dietrich, John Wayne, Albert Dekker, Oskar Homolka, Broderick Crawford, Mischa Auer) – Classic Movie Review 7167

Director Tay Garnett’s fine 1940 black and white adventure comedy knockabout entertainment Seven Sinners expertly mixes romance and brawls, though the scintillating cast is the main reason to watch. Marlene Dietrich and John Wayne show […]

Jun, 15

Sleeping with the Enemy * (1991, Julia Roberts, Patrick Bergin, Kevin Anderson) – Classic Movie Review 5888

Director Joseph Ruben’s 1991 movie Sleeping with the Enemy is a crass, unpleasant and exploitative sledgehammer thriller starring Julia Roberts as a battered wife, pretty woman Laura, who fakes her own death, runs away and […]

Aug, 09

Enough * (2002, Jennifer Lopez, Billy Campbell, Tessa Allen, Juliette Lewis, Dan Futterman, Noah Wyle, Fred Ward) – Classic Movie Review 5885

Enough already! Jennifer Lopez follows Mariah Carey (Glitter) and Britney Spears (Crossroads) to the video dump bin with director Michael Apted’s tatty and inept 2002 revenge thriller. If, as the poster says, everyone has a […]

Aug, 09

Husbands **** (1970, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Jenny Runacre) – Classic Movie Review 5729

Writer-director-star John Cassavetes’s intelligent and thoughtful epic 1970 film account of three buddies, Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie Black (Peter Falk) and Gus Demetri (Cassavetes), out on the razzle after a common friend’s sudden death, is a startlingly […]

Jul, 08

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