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House of Horrors *** (1946, Martin Kosleck, Rondo Hatton, Robert Lowery, Virginia Grey, Bill Goodwin, Alan Napier) – Classic Movie Review 12,461

Universal Pictures’ 1946 black and white cult horror film House of Horrors stars Rondo Hatton as a madman named The Creeper. It is also known as Joan Medford Is Missing.  Director Jean Yarbrough’s 1946 Universal […]

Mar, 27

Islands in the Stream *** (1977, George C Scott, David Hemmings, Gilbert Roland, Susan Tyrrell, Claire Bloom, Richard Evans, Hart Bochner, Julius Harris, Brad Savage) – Classic Movie Review 11,245

Director Franklin J Schaffner’s 1977 drama Islands in the Stream is based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway, which was posthumously released in 1970, and stars George C Scott, David Hemmings and Gilbert Roland. George C […]

May, 26

Camille Claudel **** (1988, Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Alain Cuny) – Classic Movie Review 8679

The doomed love affair between the famous sculptor Auguste Rodin (Gérard Depardieu) and his student assistant Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani) is exquisitely brought to life by two of the great names of Eighties French cinema […]

Jul, 06

Savage Messiah **** (1972, Scott Anthony, Dorothy Tutin, Helen Mirren, Lindsay Kemp, Michael Gough, John Justin, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 7867

Director Ken Russell’s 1972 biographical drama Savage Messiah is a passionate pre-World War One biopic of the French painter-sculptor Henri Gaudier-Brzeska and older Polish woman Sophie Brzeska. It is a miniaturist masterwork from Russell in a […]

Dec, 01

The Man Who Loved Women ** (1983, Burt Reynolds, Julie Andrews, Kim Basinger, Sela Ward, Marilu Henner, Cynthia Sikes, Jennifer Edwards) – Classic Movie Review 7567

In 1983 it seemed almost inevitable that the project of Americanising François Truffaut’s 1977 French romantic comedy L’Homme Qui Aimait Les Femmes (The Man Who Loved Women) would fall to director Blake Edwards and that he […]

Sep, 13

The Meyerowitz Stories (New and Selected) **** (2017, Adam Sandler, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Elizabeth Marvel, Grace Van Patten) – Movie Review

A new movie from writer-director Noah Baumbach is usually a pleasure greatly to be anticipated, and this one follows very nicely in the tradition of his Kicking and Screaming (1995), The Squid and the Whale (2005), Margot at […]

Oct, 06

Final Portrait *** (2017, Geoffrey Rush, Armie Hammer, Clémence Poésy, James Faulkner, Tony Shalhoub, Sylvie Testud) – Movie Review

Writer-director Stanley Tucci tells the quirky, amusing and strangely compelling story of world-renowned Swiss painter and sculptor Alberto Giacometti (Geoffrey Rush) and the American writer and art-lover James Lord (Armie Hammer) he asks to sit […]

Aug, 20

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