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Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] **** (1990, Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Nastassja Kinski, Rüdiger Vogler, Patricia Millardet, Massimo Bonetti) – Classic Movie Review 10,463

Writers-directors Paolo Taviani and Vittorio Taviani’s 1990 Italian art cinema drama Night Sun [Il Sole anche di Notte] stars Julian Sands, Charlotte Gainsbourg and Nastassja Kinski. [Spoiler alert] In 18th-century Italy, young nobleman Baron Sergio […]

Oct, 26

Rasputin and the Empress *** (1932, John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore, Ethel Barrymore, Diana Wynyard, Ralph Morgan, C Henry Gordon) – Classic Movie Review 7455

Director Richard Boleslawski’s 1932 MGM drama Rasputin and the Empress is famed in movie history as the only film in which sibling superstars John Barrymore, Lionel Barrymore and Ethel Barrymore appeared together. But, unfortunately, there are only a couple of […]

Aug, 17

The Garden of Allah *** (1927, Alice Terry, Ivan Petrovich, Marcel Vibert) – Classic Movie Review 7454

Director Rex Ingram’s 1927 romantic drama The Garden of Allah is the second – silent – film of Robert S Hichens’s 1904 British novel, most famous now in the 1936 version The Garden of Allah with Marlene […]

Aug, 17

Crooks in Cloisters *** (1963, Ronald Fraser, Barbara Windsor, Bernard Cribbins) – Classic Movie Review 5386

The endearingly daft 1963 film Crooks in Cloisters is a happy reminder of the pleasantly simpler days of British comedy when characters were called Bikini (Barbara Windsor of course), Squirts (Bernard Cribbins) and Specs (Davy […]

May, 02

Bulletproof Monk **½ (2003, Yun-Fat Chow, Seann William Scott, Jaime King, Karel Roden) – Classic Movie Review 5317

‘A monk. A punk. A chick. In a kick-ass flick.’ Director Paul Hunter’s amusing 2003 action thriller relishes its odd-couple daring in teaming Chow Yun-Fat with Seann William Scott. Chow Yun-Fat stars as wise, old […]

Apr, 18

Brother Orchid *** (1940, Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, Cecil Kellaway) – Classic Movie Review 5065

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1940 Warner Bros gangster movie stars Edward G Robinson, Humphrey Bogart, Donald Crisp, Ann Sothern, Ralph Bellamy, Allen Jenkins, and Cecil Kellaway. Robinson plays racket boss mobster Little John Sarto who returns […]

Feb, 26

L’Auberge Rouge [The Red Inn] **** (1951, Fernandel, Françoise Rosay, Julien Carette, Marie-Claire Olivia) – Classic Movie Review 4946

Fernandel’s 1951 classic movie is a gloriously macabre piece of French Grand Guignol black comedy, crisply written by the screen-writing team of Jean Aurenche and Pierre Bost, and expertly handled by director Claude Autant-Lara, who […]

Jan, 27

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