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All Fall Down **** (1962, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Karl Malden, Brandon De Wilde, Angela Lansbury) – Classic Movie Review 8517

Director John Frankenheimer’s 1962 drama All Fall Down is a distinguished piece of film-making based on a novel by James Leo Herlihy, the author of Midnight Cowboy, about a young man called Clinton Willart (Brandon […]

May, 29

Beloved *** (1998, Oprah Winfrey, Danny Glover, Thandie Newton) – Classic Movie Review 5355

Oprah Winfrey gives up the talk show day job to be producer-star of her pet project, a lavish and reverentially handled, but ponderously achieved 1998 film version of Toni Morrison’s 1987 Pulitzer Prize-winning novel Beloved. […]

Apr, 28

Bye Bye Birdie **** (1963, Janet Leigh, Dick Van Dyke, Ann-Margret, Paul Lynde, Maureen Stapleton, Bobby Rydell, Jesse Pearson) – Classic Movie Review 4,661

The 1963 movie musical Bye Bye Birdie stars Dick Van Dyke and Ann-Margret, whose delicious turns lead this most enjoyable transfer of the 1960 Broadway hit show about the last TV appearance of a rock […]

Nov, 16

I Am Number Four **½ (2011, Alex Pettyfer, Timothy Olyphant, Dianna Agron, Teresa Palmer, Callan McAuliffe, Jake Abel) – Classic Movie Review 4230

Alex Pettyfer stars as teenage hero John Smith in director D J Caruso’s interesting and intriguing though somehow lacking 2011 teen sci-fi action adventure thriller, based on Pittacus Lore’s young adult novel. Aliens and their guardians are hiding […]

Sep, 20

Indignation **** (2016, Logan Lerman, Sarah Gadon, Linda Emond, Tracy Letts) – Movie Review

Logan Lerman is brilliant as young, clever and idealistic Marcus Messner, a Jewish butcher’s son from New Jersey, who leaves the family home and joins a small Ohio college in 1951, and meets trouble and strife. Oh and a […]

Jun, 02

Walk Softly, Stranger *** (1950, Joseph Cotten, Alida Valli, Spring Byington, Paul Stewart, John McIntire, Jeff Donnell, Jack Parr) – Classic Movie Review 2024

The 1950 romantic film noir Walk Softly, Stranger stars Joseph Cotten as a small-time crook on the run, who arrives in Ashton, Ohio, claiming to have lived there as a boy but with robbery in […]

Dec, 30

The Mothman Prophecies *** (2002, Richard Gere, Laura Linney, Will Patton, Alan Bates, Debra Messing) – Classic Movie Review 853

Beware The Mothman! – a blinding vision with glaring red eyes who warns of disasters. Richard Gere stars as reporter John Klein, whose wife Mary (Debra Messing) sees The Mothman just before a fatal car crash. […]

Mar, 01

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