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Posts Tagged "1970s"

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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 […]

Nov, 30

Saint Jack **** (1979, Ben Gazzara, Denholm Elliott, James Villiers, Joss Ackland, Rodney Bewes) – Classic Movie Review 6326

Director Peter Bogdanovich’s 1979 cult movie adaptation of Paul Theroux’s 1973 novel Saint Jack is one of his best films for many years, made after a three-year hiatus following three flop movies in a row. Ben […]

Nov, 27

The Alf Garnett Saga * (1972, Warren Mitchell, Dandy Nichols, Adrienne Posta, Mike Angelis) – Classic Movie Review 6051

Director Bob Kellett’s 1972 sequel to 1968’s Till Death Us Do Part is a shaky and disappointing comedy feature. It is the second film spinoff from the classic Sixties TV show Till Death Us Do […]

Sep, 29

Me Without You ** (2001, Anna Friel, Michelle Williams, Oliver Milburn, Trudie Styler) – Classic Movie Review 5315

Anna Friel and Michelle Williams star as two London girls, Marina (Friel) and Holly (Williams), who make a pledge of friendship during the early 1970s as they grow up on the Isle of Wight and […]

Apr, 18

Stay Hungry **** (1976, Jeff Bridges, Sally Field, Arnold Schwarzenegger, R G Armstrong, Robert Englund) – Classic Movie Review 5165

Co-writer/ co-producer/ director Bob Rafelson’s 1976 cult comedy drama film Stay Hungry stars Jeff Bridges as restless Alabama heir Craig Blake, who is suddenly orphaned. He turns his back on the country club values and […]

Mar, 16

20th Century Women **** (2016, Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann, Billy Crudup) – Movie Review

There’s a feast of acting from Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig in writer-director Mike Mills’s rousing, provocative and moving story of three hippyish women exploring love and freedom in Southern California during the early Seventies. Mills is Oscar […]

Feb, 24

Patty Hearst *** (1988, Natasha Richardson, William Forsythe, Ving Rhames, Frances Fisher, Jodi Long) – Classic Movie Review 4482

Director Paul Schrader’s 1988 drama tells the astonishing, and uniquely troubling story of Patty Hearst, the American newspaper heiress who was kidnapped in Berkeley, California, by Symbionese Liberation Army terrorists on February 4 1974 before […]

Oct, 18

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