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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
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The Lady Gambles *** (1949, Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Preston, Stephen McNally) – Classic Movie Review 10,948
The lady in the 1949 film noir drama The Lady Gambles is Joan Boothe (played by Barbara Stanwyck), whose compulsive gambling addiction leads to marital strife. On set, Stanwyck gave young Tony Curtis a tip. […]
A Hatful of Rain *** (1957, Eva Marie Saint, Don Murray, Anthony Franciosa) – Classic Movie Review 10,223
Hollywood takes a deep breath and tackles the drug-addiction problem in director Fred Zinnemann’s affecting, intelligent 1957 film A Hatful of Rain, with Don Murray expertly tugging at the emotions as Johnny Pope, a young […]
Rocketman **** (2019, Taron Egerton, Jamie Bell, Richard Madden, Bryce Dallas Howard, Steven Mackintosh, Gemma Jones, Stephen Graham) – Movie Review
Taron Egerton stars in Rocketman (2019) in a bravura performance as Reg Dwight, who nicks his new first name from his band mate Elton Dean and supposedly his new surname from John Lennon, though apparently […]
Beautiful Boy ** (2018, Steve Carell, Timothée Chalamet, Maura Tierney, Amy Ryan) – Movie Review
Steve Carell stars as real-life troubled dad David Sheff and Timothée Chalamet co-stars as his drug and booze addicted son Nic Sheff in Belgian co-writer/ director Felix Van Groeningen’s Beautiful Boy, a drama of an […]
Coffee and Cigarettes *** (2003, Bill Murray, Alfred Molina, Steve Coogan, Cate Blanchett, Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Roberto Benigni, Steven Wright) – Classic Movie Review 4358
Writer-director Jim Jarmusch’s series of 12 yarns, linked by coffee and cigarettes, has cult hit written all over it. Some of the tales are dull misfires, alas – perhaps too many of them – but […]
La Vie en Rose [La môme] ***** (2007, Marion Cotillard, Sylvie Testud, Pascal Greggory) – Classic Movie Review 3904
Marion Cotillard becomes the fourth French person to win an Oscar in a magnificent tour de force as singer Edith Piaf (1915-1963). Among her total of 27 awards for her amazing performance in the film, she […]
The Panic in Needle Park **** (1971, Al Pacino, Kitty Winn, Alan Vint, Richard Bright, Kiel Martin, Raul Julia, Gil Rogers, Joe Santos, Paul Sorvino) – Classic Movie Review 3480
Director Jerry Schatzberg’s 1971 searing downer of movie about the heroin addicts who frequent ‘Needle Park’ stars the up-coming Al Pacino in his second film, just before he hit it big with The Godfather. A downbeat but […]