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The Frogmen *** (1951, Richard Widmark, Dana Andrews, Gary Merrill, Robert Wagner, Jeffrey Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 10,803

Director Lloyd Bacon’s 1951 American black-and-white World War Two drama The Frogmen stars Richard Widmark as martinet US Navy lieutenant commander John Lawrence, who leads the WW2 wartime Underwater Demolition Team divers of the title, and wins the […]

Jan, 18

The Deep **** (1977, Jacqueline Bisset, Nick Nolte, Robert Shaw, Louis Gossett Jr, Eli Wallach, Dick Anthony Williams) – Classic Movie Review 8739

The 1977 adventure The Deep may be tremendously shallow, but that’s good, right? Peter (Jaws) Benchley’s deep sea adventure hokum novel about the discovery of a sunken drugs cache off Bermuda makes for a great […]

Jul, 20

The Big Blue [Le Grand Bleu] ***½ (1988, Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette) – Classic Movie Review 4462

Jean-Marc Barr and Jean Reno star as two divers, rivals since childhood, who battle for supremacy of the deep. Director Luc Besson’s fascinating but under-written and overblown 1988 movie was a huge hit with the […]

Oct, 06

The Son’s Room [Il Stanzo di Figlio] ***** (2001, Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante, Jasmine Trinca, Giuseppe Sanfelice) – Classic Movie Review 3053

Co-writer/director Nanni Moretti’s 2001 Cannes Palme D’Or winner Il Stanzo di Figlio is a devastating heartbreaker. Nanni Moretti, Laura Morante and Jasmine Trinca star as a psychoanalyst, his wife and his daughter who suffer through profound emotional trauma […]

Nov, 12

The Skeleton Twins *** (2014, Kristen Wiig, Bill Hader, Luke Wilson) – Movie Review

A movie that starts with both its central characters trying to commit suicide isn’t going to be all a bundle of laughs, and nor is this one, but it certainly tries hard to amuse as […]

Nov, 06

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