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Posts Tagged "1960s"

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A Kind of Loving **** (1962, Alan Bates, June Ritchie, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 1482

‘You know, it’s a funny feeling. Sometimes I really fancy her, and the next day I can hardly stand the sight of her.’ – Vic Brown (Alan Bates). Director John Schlesinger’s gifted 1962 film A […]

Jul, 27

The First Wives Club ***½ (1996, Bette Midler, Goldie Hawn, Diane Keaton) – Classic Movie Review 1435

Bette Midler (as Brenda Cushman), Goldie Hawn (as Elise Elliot) and Diane Keaton (as Annie Paradis) star as middle-agers plotting revenge after being dumped and divorced by their hubbies in favour of younger wives in director Hugh Wilson’s […]

Jul, 16

Grace of Monaco ** (2014, Nicole Kidman, Tim Roth) – Movie Review

Grace of Monaco is not devoid of interest but it is a drab mess, with an oddly blank Nicole Kidman and a weirdly brooding Tim Roth both hopelessly miscast both as physical and character types as […]

Jun, 05

City of God [Cidade de Deus] ***** (2002, Alexandre Rodrigues, Matheus Nachtergaele, Leandro Firmino, Alice Braga, Seu Jorge) – Classic Movie Review 1194

Director Fernando Meirelles’s 2002 classic is an extreme but absolutely brilliant and utterly nerve-wracking Brazilian thriller, in which two Rio boys, brought up together in the Sixties, fight it out on different sides of the […]

May, 09

Blow *** (2001, Johnny Depp, Penélope Cruz, Ray Liotta, Rachel Griffiths, Franka Potente, Paul Reubens) – Classic Film Review 1193

Johnny Depp invariably boldly goes where few other stars would dream of, and usually it pays off handsomely. But this time back in 2001 he comes a bit of a cropper in this supposedly true, […]

May, 09

Serpico ***** (1973, Al Pacino, John Randolph, Jack Kehoe, Jack Kehoe, Biff McGuire, Tony Roberts, M Emmet Walsh, F Murray Abraham) – Classic Movie Review 1190

Director Sidney Lumet’s edge-of-seat 1973 real-life film about corruption in the New York Police Department stars a perfectly cast 33-year-old Al Pacino in a scalding, mesmerising performance as plain-clothes cop New York Frank Serpico cop […]

May, 09

Murder Ahoy *** (1964, Margaret Rutherford, Lionel Jeffries, Charles ‘Bud’ Tingwell, Stringer Davis, Nicholas Parsons) – Classic Movie Review 864

Margaret Rutherford’s fourth and final outing as Agatha Christie’s spinster detective Miss Jane Marple, the 1964 comedy thriller Murder Ahoy, has a breezy nautical flavour, as she investigates the murder of one of her fellow […]

Mar, 04

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