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- Young Hearts **** (2024, Lou Goossens, Marius De Saeger, Geert Van Rampelberg, Emilie De Roo, Dirk Van Dijck, Saar Rogiers)
- Naked Lunch *** (1991, Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider) – Classic Movie Review 13,366
- 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
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Maverick *** (1994, Mel Gibson, Jodie Foster, James Garner) – Classic Movie Review 1460
Mel Gibson stars as the reincarnation of TV’s famed 1957-62 card-playing gambler Bret Maverick in director Richard Donner’s breezy, likeable and entertaining 1994 comedy Western. Maverick needs an additional $3000 to enter a Winner Take All poker […]
Buddy, Buddy *** (1981, Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon) – Classic Movie Review 1457
Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon’s fifth movie together and their last till Grumpy Old Men in 1993 is director Billy Wilder’s final film from 1981. Alas it wasn’t the hoped-for classic, and Wilder’s brilliant career […]
Deep Blue Sea *** (1999, Saffron Burrows, Thomas Jane, Samuel L Jackson, Stellan Skarsgård) – Classic Movie Review 1456
Director Renny Harlin’s 1999 horror film Deep Blue Sea isn’t exactly a high-quality monster movie but it is thoroughly enjoyable none the less. Main star Saffron Burrows looks fit as the anti-heroine Dr Susan McAlester, […]
The Grass Is Greener *** (1960, Cary Grant, Deborah Kerr, Jean Simmons, Robert Mitchum) – Classic Movie Review 1455
Producer-director Stanley Donen’s 1960 release is a stagey but pleasing and enjoyable, old-style sub-Noel Coward drawing-room comedy of marital infidelity along the lines of Private Lives as Cary Grant’s marriage to Deborah Kerr is threatened by Jean Simmons […]
Grumpy Old Men *** (1993, Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Buck Henry) – Classic Movie Review 1454
Director Donald Petrie’s 1993 romantic comedy is neither sharp nor witty, yet it’s appealing and often funny. It was exceedingly popular and spawned a sequel, Grumpier Old Men, in 1995. In older age, Jack Lemmon […]
Little Odessa **** (1994, Tim Roth, Edward Furlong, Vanessa Redgrave) – Classic Movie Review 1453
Writer-director James Gray’s 1994 dysfunctional family drama is dark toned, chilly and depressing but highly impressive, both emotionally and visually. It is spurred along with a superb Tim Roth performance as Joshua, a cold-blooded Russian […]
The Grass Harp **** (1995, Edward Furlong, Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek, Walter Matthau) – Classic Movie Review 1452
Director Charles Matthau’s 1995 film is a civilised treat. The 18-year-old Edward Furlong stars as an orphan boy who, back in the 1930s, goes to live with his two dotty aunts (Piper Laurie, Sissy Spacek) […]