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Magnificent Obsession **** (1935, Irene Dunne, Robert Taylor, Ralph Morgan, Charles Butterworth) – Classic Movie Review 11,234

Universal’s 1935 black and white weepie romantic melodrama Magnificent Obsession is based on the 1929 novel by Lloyd C Douglas, and stars Irene Dunne and Robert Taylor. ‘She HATED Him in self-defence… because she hungered […]

May, 23

They Call Me Trinity [Lo chiamavano Trinità…] *** (1970, Terence Hill, Bud Spencer, Farley Granger, Steffen Zacharias) – Classic Movie Review 8408

Terence Hill is the man they call Trinity [Trinità] in director Enzo Barboni’s amusingly silly 1971 comedy spaghetti Western They Call Me Trinity [Lo chiamavano Trinità…], where he is paired, as so often, with Bud […]

Apr, 28

The House on Telegraph Hill **** (1951, Richard Basehart, Valentina Cortese, William Lundigan) – Classic Movie Review 8228

Director Robert Wise’s 1951 20th Century Fox black and white film noir thriller The House on Telegraph Hill stars Valentina Cortese [aka Valentina Cortesa] as Victoria Kowelska, a Polish concentration camp victim who takes over […]

Mar, 11

Bad Influence **** (1990, Rob Lowe, James Spader, Lisa Zane, Kathleen Wilhoite) – Classic Movie Review 4393

Director Curtis Hanson’s dark, weird and sexy 1990 American psychological thriller film noir Bad Influence stars Rob Lowe and James Spader. It is based on an original script by David Koepp, launching his career. James […]

Sep, 21

Spy *** (2015, Melissa McCarthy, Rose Byrne, Jason Statham, Jude Law) – Movie Review

There’s no false advertising here. Spy does exactly what it says on the tin. It’s a spy movie and it stars Melissa McCarthy. Fans of both need look no further. Actually it’s a spy spoof. […]

May, 22

Naked Tango **** (1990, Mathilda May, Vincent D’Onofrio, Esai Morales, Fernando Rey) – Classic Movie Review 1867

Writer-director Leonard Schrader’s 1990 eerie and exciting dance-inspired thriller stars Mathilda May as a newly wed young European woman who assumes a false identity in 1920s Argentina and finds herself caught up in a lurid […]

Nov, 22

Mumford (1999, Loren Dean, Hope Davis, Jason Lee) – Classic Film Review 1115

Producer-writer-director Lawrence Kasdan‘s pleasant enough 1999 film stars Loren Dean as a man who assumes a false identity as a psychologist called Dr Mickey Mumford and uses his intuitive skills to help the neurotic residents of a […]

Apr, 19

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