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Peridot *** (2022, Shayne Pax, Harry Hains, Susan Moore Harmon) – Classic Movie Review 12,366

Shayne Pax writes and directs, and stars in, the 2022 drama film Peridot as young hustler Gabriel, working the Los Angeles streets with his two buddies, just trying to survive and to send money to […]

Dec, 13

A Separate Peace *** (2004, J Barton, Toby Moore, Jacob Pitts, Danny Swerdlow, Hume Cronyn) – Classic Movie Review 11,383

Peter Yates’s final film remakes A Separate Peace from the 1959 novel by John Knowles. Director Peter Yates’s 2004 Canadian coming-of-age drama A Separate Peace is a welcome TV movie remake of Larry Pearce’s 1972 […]

Jul, 12

The Whole Wide World **** (1996, Vincent D’Onofrio, Renée Zellweger, Ann Wedgeworth, Harve Presnell) – Classic Movie Review 10,795

Director Dan Ireland’s 1996 biographical film The Whole Wide World is an intriguing and excellently done real-life 1930s Texas-set drama exploring the relationship between pulp-fiction author Robert E Howard (Vincent D’Onofrio), creator of the comic-strip […]

Jan, 16

Kidnapped *** (1960, Peter Finch, James MacArthur, Bernard Lee, John Laurie, Finlay Currie) – Classic Movie Review 10,700

‘SWASHBUCKLING ADVENTURE! FLASHING SWORDS AND RAGING SEAS… as soldiers of fortune fight for their lives!’ Writer-director Robert Stevenson’s 1960 British-made adventure Kidnapped is the Walt Disney version of Robert Louis Stevenson’s tale. It offers a […]

Dec, 23

Rich and Famous *** (1981, Jacqueline Bisset, Candice Bergen, David Selby, Hart Bochner, Steven Hill, Meg Ryan, Michael Brandon, Matt Lattanzi, Dack Rambo) – Classic Movie Review 10,528

Director George Cukor’s last film (at the age of 82) is the 1981 American drama Rich and Famous, an amusing, involving remake of 1943’s Old Acquaintance, with Jacqueline Bisset as sulky Liz Hamilton and Candice […]

Nov, 11

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants ** (2005, Amber Tamblyn, Alexis Bledel, America Ferrera, Blake Lively, Jenna Boyd, Bradley Whitford) – Classic Movie Review 10,475

‘Laugh. Cry. Share the pants.’ Four 17-year-old best girlfriends buy a pair of jeans and agree to share the pants but not wash out the magic, in director Ken Kwapis’s 2005 chick flick tale of […]

Oct, 28

Baxter! *** (1973, Patricia Neal, Scott Jacoby, Jean-Pierre Cassel, Britt Ekland) – Classic Movie Review 10,286

Director Lionel Jeffries’s sympathetic 1975 British drama Baxter! stars Patricia Neal as speech therapist Dr Clemm, who tries to solve the problems of disturbed, speech-afflicted 12-year-old Roger Baxter (Scott Jacoby), upset after his parents’ breakup. The […]

Sep, 10

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