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The Woman in the Window ** (2021, Amy Adams, Gary Oldman, Fred Hechinger, Anthony Mackie, Julianne Moore, Wyatt Russell, Tracy Letts) – Movie Review

The Woman in the Window (2021) stars the likeable and sympathetic Amy Adams, who lands a big fat star role as clinically depressed, pill-popping, wine-drinking, agoraphobic child psychologist Anna Fox, living alone in an eerie […]

May, 21

High Hopes **** (1988, Phil Davis, Ruth Sheen, Edna Doré, Heather Tobias, Philip Jackson, Lesley Manville, David Bamber, Jason Watkins) – Classic Movie Review 11,228

Writer-director Mike Leigh’s incisive 1988 satire on life in Eighties Britain, High Hopes, centres on three London comic couples: socialist Shirley (Ruth Sheen) and Cyril (Philip Davis), a bearded despatch rider and his tree-planting lover who […]

May, 21

April Love ** (1957, Pat Boone, Shirley Jones, Dolores Michaels, Arthur O’Connell, Jeanette Nolan) – Classic Movie Review 10,825

Director Henry Levin’s handsome-looking, pleasant 1957 musical April Love is a simple, sweet Fifties homespun entertainment for the star Pat Boone’s young fans of all those years ago. If they are still around this might […]

Jan, 24

Apartment Zero ** (1988, Hart Bochner, Colin Firth, Dora Bryan) – Classic Movie Review 10,485

Colin Firth stars as Adrian LeDuc, an uptight, lonely British movie fan who is forced to rent his insane mother’s room and accepts a strange American seducer, Jack Carney (Hart Bochner), as a house-guest in […]

Oct, 30

Magic Town **** (1947, James Stewart, Jane Wyman, Kent Smith) – Classic Movie Review 9559

Director William A Wellman’s 1947 comedy Magic Town is an underrated pleasure. It describes the politician’s dream – a Magic Town that is a perfect mirror of American opinions. James Stewart stars as opinion pollster […]

Mar, 25

The Man Upstairs *** (1958, Richard Attenborough, Bernard Lee, Donald Houston, Dorothy Alison) – Classic Movie Review 8823

Director Don Chaffey’s 1958 black and white British thriller The Man Upstairs stars Richard Attenborough in the downbeat but involving story of apartment block tenant Peter Watson, The Man Upstairs who is having a nervous […]

Aug, 12

My New Gun ** (1992, Diane Lane, James Le Gros, Stephen Collins, Tess Harper, Bill Raymond) – Classic Movie Review 8410

Writer-director Stacy Cochran’s 1992 thriller My New Gun stars Diane Lane as Debbie Bender, a thirtysomething New Jersey suburban housewife who is given a gun by her successful radiologist husband Gerald (Stephen Collins). But it […]

Apr, 29

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