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Merrily We Go to Hell [Merrily We Go to ____] *** (1932, Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Cary Grant) – Classic Movie Review 11,279

Director Dorothy Arzner’s 1932 Paramount Pictures black and white pre-Code era comedy drama Merrily We Go To Hell stars Sylvia Sidney, Fredric March, Adrianne Allen, Skeets Gallagher, Florence Burton, Esther Howard, Kent Taylor and Cary […]

Jun, 07

The Company of Strangers [Strangers in Good Company] **** (1990, Alice Diabo, Constance Garneau, Beth Webber) – Classic Movie Review 10,983

Canadian director Cynthia Scott uses wonderfully spirited non-professionals to tell their own revealing life stories, and shoots in a disarmingly direct, naturalistic style, in the 1990 drama film The Company of Strangers [Strangers in Good […]

Mar, 03

The Beachcomber ** (1954, Glynis Johns, Robert Newton, Donald Sinden, Paul Rogers) – Classic Movie Review 10,168

Director Muriel Box’s 1954 British Technicolor drama The Beachcomber stars a well-cast Robert Newton, who catches the eye and ear as ‘Honorable Ted’ Wilson, an East Indies island drunk (Newton was himself a famous alcoholic), […]

Aug, 12

Three Men and a Cradle [3 Hommes et un Couffin] **** (1985, Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah, André Dussollier) – Classic Movie Review 10,043

Director Coline Serreau’s 1985 Three Men and a Cradle [Trois Hommes et un Couffin] stars Roland Giraud, Michel Boujenah and André Dussollier as three high-living bachelors (Pierre, Michel, Jacques) who become the guardians of a […]

Jul, 15

Little Dorrit **** (1987, Derek Jacobi, Alec Guinness, Joan Greenwood, Sarah Pickering,) – Classic Movie Review 9263

Director Christine Edzard’s rich 1987 film Little Dorrit is a deservedly praised, huge-canvas two-part film of Charles Dickens’s romantic drama/ social satire about good Samaritan Arthur Clennam (Derek Jacobi), who returns to England after 20 […]

Jan, 15

The Whistleblower [Chui shao ren] *** (2019, Jiayin Lei, Wei Tang, Xi Qi) – Movie Review

Writer-director Xiaolu Xue’s entertaining Chinese-Australian co-production The Whistleblower (2019) is at heart a good old-fashioned epic chase conspiracy thriller, with some modern trimmings – OMG, way, way too much CGI! The CGI is no doubt […]

Dec, 11

A Million Little Pieces ** (2018, Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Odessa Young, Giovanni Ribisi, Juliette Lewis, Dash Mihok, Charles Parnell) – Movie Review

Aaron Taylor-Johnson is excellent in director Sam Taylor-Johnson’s A Million Little Pieces (2018) as 23-year-old aspiring writer James Frey, who is massively self-destructing through addiction at drugs and alcohol. His brother Bob Frey Jr (Charlie […]

Sep, 19

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