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Posts Tagged "afterlife"

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Le Passage [The Passage] * (1986, Alain Delon, Christine Boisson, Jean-Luc Moreau, Daniel Emilfork) – Classic Movie Review 10,417

Alain Delon plays a peace-loving animator film-maker killed in an accident and involved in a supernatural game with Death (Daniel Emilfork), in director René Manzor’s bizarre 1986 French fantasy film Le Passage [The Passage]. The […]

Oct, 15

The Woman in Black * (2012, Daniel Radcliffe, Janet McTeer, Ciarán Hinds) – Classic Movie Review 10,205

The Woman in Black (2012) is an exceptionally dull and tame ghost story that has little going for it apart from Daniel Radcliffe’s strong central performance as London solicitor Arthur Kipps, grieving over the death […]

Aug, 21

Chances Are *** (1989, Cybill Shepherd, Robert Downey Jr, Ryan O’Neal) – Classic Movie Review 9139

Director Emile Ardolino’s cute 1989 fantasy romance Chances Are is about a woman, Corinne Jeffries (Cybill Shepherd), still faithful to her murdered lawyer husband, Louie Jeffries (Christopher McDonald). Many years later, Louie comes back to […]

Dec, 08

Pet Sematary **** (2019, Jason Clarke, Amy Seimetz, John Lithgow, Jeté Laurence) – Movie Review

Directors Kevin Kölsch and Dennis Widmyer’s reworking of the Stephen King novel and 1989 movie Pet Sematary is a surprisingly effective and classy horror movie. All about death, it is really dark, morbid and nasty, […]

Apr, 09

Made in Heaven *** (1987, Timothy Hutton, Kelly McGillis, Maureen Stapleton, Don Murray) – Classic Movie Review 7084

Director Alan Rudolph’s appealing but minor 1987 movie Made in Heaven stars Timothy Hutton as Mike Shea, who dies while performing an heroic act but returns from Heaven where he has fallen for Annie Packert […]

May, 22

A Little Bit of Heaven * (2011, Kate Hudson, Gael García Bernal, Kathy Bates, Treat Williams, Whoopi Goldberg, Lucy Punch) – Classic Movie Review 4606

Kate Hudson stars in director Nicole Kassell’s 2011 tearful fantasy comedy drama as sassy, funny Marley Corbett, who likes to play the field. But then she finds that she is dying of cancer. However, there is […]

Nov, 07

The Lovely Bones ** (2009, Rachel Weisz, Mark Wahlberg, Saoirse Ronan, Susan Sarandon, Stanley Tucci, Michael Imperioli, Jake Abel) – Classic Movie Review 4335

‘I remember being really small, too small to see over the edge of a table. There was a snow globe, and I remember the penguin who lived inside the globe. He was all alone in […]

Sep, 10

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