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The Earthling ** (1980, William Holden, Ricky Schroder, Jack Thompson) – Classic Movie Review 11,721

Director Peter Collinson’s well meaning but gloomy and maudlin 1980 American-Australian adventure drama film The Earthling was filmed in Australia in 1979 and stars William Holden, Ricky Schroder and Jack Thompson. Holden plays an old […]

Nov, 12

Dying Young ** (1991, Julia Roberts, Campbell Scott, Vincent D’Onofrio, Colleen Dewhurst, Ellen Burstyn) – Classic Movie Review 10,518

Julia Roberts at the height of her Pretty Woman popularity misses the target as Hilary O’Neil, a private nurse house-help for dying 20-something Victor Geddes (Campbell Scott), a young man suffering from blood cancer. She […]

Nov, 09

No Sad Songs for Me *** (1950, Margaret Sullavan, Wendell Corey, Viveca Lindfors, Natalie Wood) – Classic Movie Review 7950

Director Rudolph Maté’s 1950 drama No Sad Songs for Me is Margaret Sullavan’s swansong in the movies. It is aptly the story of a terminally ill mother, Mary Scott (Sullavan), who will not tell her […]

Dec, 28

Parting Shots *** (1998, Chris Rea, Felicity Kendal, John Cleese, Bob Hoskins, Oliver Reed, Diana Rigg, Ben Kingsley, Joanna Lumley, Gareth Hunt) – Classic Movie Review 7771

Writer/ producer/ director Michael Winner gathers his friends around him for his reasonably entertaining 1998 black comedy film Parting Shots, which proved to be his parting shot as his final movie. Chris Rea stars as failed […]

Nov, 10

Tribute *** (1980, Jack Lemmon, Lee Remick, Robby Benson, Colleen Dewhurst, Kim Cattrall, John Marley) – Classic Movie Review 7436

Director Bob Clark’s 1981 drama Tribute stars Jack Lemmon, who memorably records on film his superlative, poignant Broadway performance as joking New York theatre publicist Scottie Templeton, who learns that he is afflicted by terminal […]

Aug, 12

Hana-Bi [Fireworks] **** (1997, Takeshi Kitano, Kayoko Kishimoto, Ren Osugi) – Classic Movie Review 6525

After the bright young Kids Return (1996), Japanese writer-director-star Takeshi Kitano (Beat Takeshi) turns in a world-weary old man’s movie in this meditation on lives at the end of their tether. For Hana-Bi, Takeshi Kitano was […]

Jan, 06

Jawbone *** (2017, Johnny Harris, Ray Winstone, Ian McShane, Michael Smiley) – Movie Review

Johnny Harris stars as former junior ABA boxing champion Jimmy McCabe who hits rock bottom, in director Thomas Napper’s likeable 2017 Brit boxing drama that isn’t afraid to revisit some ancient clichés and still win on points […]

May, 12

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