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Dorian Gray *** (1970, Helmut Berger, Richard Todd, Herbert Lom, Marie Liljedahl) – Classic Movie Review 12,178

Divine decadence with Helmut Berger as the perfect, beautiful, debauched-looking Dorian in the 1970 Oscar Wilde sexploitation film Dorian Gray.  Co-writer/ director Massimo Dallamano’s 1970 Euromovie Dorian Gray stars Helmut Berger, who makes the perfect, beautiful, […]

Jun, 16

Portrait from Life [The Girl in the Painting] *** (1949, Mai Zetterling, Robert Beatty, Guy Rolfe, Herbert Lom, Patrick Holt) – Classic Movie Review 11,086

‘A psychological thriller, a captivating mystery, a tender love story – all brilliantly COMBINED INTO ONE EXCITING MOTION PICTURE’ Director Terence Fisher’s 1949 British black and white mystery romantic drama Portrait from Life [The Girl […]

Apr, 10

As You Desire Me *** (1932, Greta Garbo, Melvyn Douglas, Erich von Stroheim) – Classic Movie Review 5320

Director George Fitzmaurice’s 1932 romantic drama stars a ravishing bleached-blonde Greta Garbo as alluring, alcoholic Budapest bar entertainer Zara. She is also an amnesiac, who has been carrying on with a novelist (Erich von Stroheim), […]

Apr, 19

The Boy ** (2015, Lauren Cohan, Rupert Evans, Diana Hardcastle, Jim Norton, Ben Robson, James Russell) – Movie Review

Lauren Cohan stars as Greta, young American woman who comes to UK for the first time on the run from her past and takes a job with a creepy elderly couple, Mrs and Mr Heelshire (Diana Hardcastle, […]

Mar, 29

Somewhere in Time **** (1980, Christopher Reeve, Jane Seymour, Christopher Plummer, Teresa Wright, Bill Erwin) – Classic Movie Review 3070

Director Jeannot Szwarc’s gorgeous, haunting, heart-aching 1980 sci-fi fantasy romance stars Christopher Reeve as Richard Collier, a young Chicago playwright who goes to the premiere of his new play. When an old lady (Susan French) […]

Nov, 20

Dorian Gray **** (2009, Ben Barnes, Colin Firth, Rebecca Hall, Ben Chaplin, Douglas Henshall, Emilia Fox, Max Irons) – Classic Movie Review 3,033

Ben Barnes is perfect as the hedonistic, corrupt young Dorian Gray in director Ol Parker’s smart, sensual and well-tuned 2009 film of Oscar Wilde’s only novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. Looking and sounding just […]

Nov, 06

Mister John *** (2013, Aidan Gillen, Zoe Tay, Molly Rose Lawlor) – Movie Review

An elusive tale of a man in an identity crisis and an existential stupor. Any way you look at it, that’s a real hard one to sell. Aidan Gillen stars as Irishman Gerry Devine, who leaves his unfaithful […]

Sep, 29

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