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- Queer ** (2024, Daniel Craig, Drew Starkey, Jason Schwartzman, Henry Zaga, Omar Apollo, Lesley Manville) – Classic Movie Review 13,365
- Sebastian ** (2024, Ruaridh Mollica, Hiftu Quasem, Jonathan Hyde) – Classic Movie Review 13,364
- Out of the Clouds *** (1954, Anthony Steel, Robert Beatty, David Knight, Margo Lorenz, James Robertson Justice, Eunice Gayson, Isabel Dean, Gordon Harker, Bernard Lee, Katie Johnson) – Classic Movie Review 13,363
- House of Cards *** (1968, George Peppard, Inger Stevens, Orson Welles, and Keith Michell.– Classic Movie Review 13,362
- House of Blackmail ** (1953, Mary Germaine, William Sylvester, Alexander Gauge, John Arnatt, Denis Shaw, Ingeborg Wells, Patricia Owens)
- Dance Little Lady ** (1954, Terence Morgan, Mai Zetterling, Mandy Miller, Guy Rolfe, Eunice Gayson) – Classic Movie Review 13,361
- Larger Than Life * (1996, Bill Murray, Janeane Garofalo, Matthew McConaughy, Linda Fiorentino, Keith David, Pat Hingle, Jeremy Piven, Harve Presnell, Lois Smith) – Classic Movie Review 13,364
- The Happiness of Three Women ** (1954, Eynon Evans, Brenda de Banzie, Petula Clark, Patricia Cutts) – Classic Movie Review 13,363
- Wonder Man *** (1945, Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Vera-Ellen, Donald Woods, S Z Sakall, Allen Jenkins, Edward Brophy, Otto Kruger, Steve Cochran) – Classic Movie Review 13,362
- The Summer with Carmen **** (2023, Yorgos Tsiantoulas, Andreas Lampropoulos, Nikolas Mihas, Roubini Vasilakopoulou, Vasilis Tsigristaris) – Classic Movie Review 13,361
Articles
She’s the One *** (1996, Edward Burns, Mike McGlone, Jennifer Aniston, Cameron Diaz, John Mahoney) – Classic Movie Review 1608
‘A film about love, marriage, happiness…and the little distractions in between.’ Sounds frightful, doesn’t it? But don’t let the poster put you off. Writer-director Edward Burns, maker of the 1995 indie hit The Brothers McMullen, […]
Garden State *** (2004, Zach Braff, Ian Holm, Peter Sarsgaard, Natalie Portman) – Classic Movie Review 1498
Writer-director Zach Braff’s appealingly offbeat 2004 comedy is a clear labour of love. Braff also stars quietly troubled young drug-taking LA TV actor Andrew ‘Large’ Largeman, who returns home to the Garden State for his mother’s […]
Last Dance *** (1996, Sharon Stone, Rob Morrow, Randy Quaid) – Classic Movie Review 1484
Director Bruce Beresford’s 1996 release stars Sharon Stone, who gives one of her least typical performances in this incredibly depressing drama. It was dubbed Dead Woman Walking as it’s about Cindy Liggett, a female killer […]
Saturday Night Fever ***** (1977, John Travolta, Karen Lynn Gorney, Barry Miller) – Classic Movie Review 1477
John Travolta’s first featured cinema big star role turned out to be his finest piece of acting right up until Pulp Fiction. He plays an Italian American boy called Tony Manero, a young man troubled with […]
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning ***** (1960, Albert Finney, Rachel Roberts, Bryan Pringle, Shirley Anne Field, Norman Rossington, Hylda Baker) – Classic Movie Review 1,476
Director Karel Reisz’s compelling and convincing 1960 movie version of Alan Sillitoe’s bestselling 1958 first novel Saturday Night and Sunday Morning made a new international star out of Albert Finney, almost overnight. Finney plays the […]
Blue Sky **** (1994, Jessica Lange, Tommy Lee Jones, Amy Locane, Powers Boothe, Carrie Snodgress, Chris O’Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 1475
Blue Sky is a splendid final memorial to the late great British director Tony Richardson, who started his movie career filming Look Back in Anger (1959) and A Taste of Honey (1961) and won the Academy […]
Dawn of the Dead **** (1978, David Emge, Ken Foree, Scott H Reiniger, Gaylen Ross) – Classic Movie Review 1472
Writer-director George Romero’s outstanding 1978 zombie horror movie follows four urban commandos holed up in a shopping mall in Monroeville, Pennsylvania, which is under attack from large groups of flesh-eating zombies caused by a plague […]