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A Lost Lady * (1934, Barbara Stanwyck, Frank Morgan, Ricardo Cortez) – Classic Movie Review 6775
‘The Love Idyll of the Age!’ screams the poster but the movie is way less exciting. Director Alfred E Green’s 1934 drama A Lost Lady stars Barbara Stanwyck as Marian Ormsby, whose unfaithful fiancé is […]
Battle of the Sexes *** (2017, Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough) – Movie Review
Expert screen-writer Simon Beaufoy, of The Full Monty and Slumdog Millionaire fame. retells the true story of the 1973 tennis match between female world number one Billie Jean King and male ex-champ and gambler/hustler Bobby Riggs. It gets […]
Tea and Sympathy ** (1956, Deborah Kerr, John Kerr, Leif Erickson, Edward Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 4,964
The love that dared not speak its name is a bit of a problem with Vincente Minnelli’s well-meaning 1956 film version of Robert Anderson’s hit play. Because of the US censorship Code, the play’s subject […]
Hard, Fast and Beautiful **½ (1951, Claire Trevor, Sally Forrest, Carleton G Young, Robert Clarke) – Classic Movie Review 4892
Director Ida Lupino’s intriguing and involving but hesitant 1951 drama is written by Martha Wilkerson. The movie, unusually for this time one with women as both the writer and director, as well as two female stars, is […]
Quartet **** (1948, Dirk Bogarde, Honor Blackman, Susan Shaw, Basil Radford, Naunton Wayne, Jack Watling, Mai Zetterling, Nora Swinburne, Cecil Parker, George Cole) – Classic Movie Review 3180
In this 1948 British black and white compendium movie, Quartet, esteemed author W Somerset Maugham plays host and himself introduces each of four entertaining, superbly cast short films of his own stories, with four different […]
Les Mistons [The Mischief-Makers] *** (1957, Gérard Blain, Bernadette Lafont, Michel François) – Classic Movie Review 3019
François Truffaut’s charming and revealing 1957 nostalgic short is his first professional film. Financed by his film distributor wife Madeleine Morgenstern and filmed on location in Nimes with five local boys as the Mistons (Mischief-Makers), […]
The Squid and the Whale **** (2005, Jesse Eisenberg, Owen Kline, Jeff Daniels, Laura Linney) – Classic Movie Review 2811
Jesse Eisenberg and Owen Kline star as two brothers forced to deal with the divorce of their parents Jeff Daniels and Laura Linney in Brooklyn in the 1980s in writer-director Noah Baumbach‘s poignant and amusing bitter-sweet […]