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- Walk on Water **** (2004, Lior Ashkenazi, Knut Berger, Caroline Peters) – Classic Movie Review 13,254
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- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
- Forbidden Cargo ** (1954, Nigel Patrick, Elizabeth Sellars, Terence Morgan, Jack Warner, Greta Gynt, Joyce Grenfell, Theodore Bikel) – Classic Movie Review 13,251
- Voice of the Whistler **½ (1945, Richard Dix, Lynn Merrick, Rhys Williams, James Cardwell) – Classic Movie Review 13,250
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- The Power of the Whistler *** (1945, Richard Dix, Janis Carter, Jeff Donnell) – Classic Movie Review 13,248
- Bond Street ** (1948, Jean Kent, Roland Young, Kathleen Harrison, Derek Farr, Hazel Court, Ronald Howard) – Classic Movie Review 13,247
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Arthur 2: On the Rocks ** (1988, Dudley Moore, Liza Minnelli, John Gielgud) – Classic Movie Review 9391
Director Bud Yorkin films an inferior sequel to the 1981 hit Arthur in the 1988 comedy Arthur 2: On the Rocks, with all three stars from the original returning, but not the original writer-director Steve […]
Come Fill the Cup *** (1951, James Cagney, Phyllis Thaxter, Gig Young, Raymond Massey, James Gleason) – Classic Movie Review 9319
James Cagney gives a powerful, yet well-controlled performance as a newsman called Lew Marsh fighting alcoholism, in director Gordon Douglas’s involving 1951 study of the evils of drink, Come Fill the Cup, based on a […]
Honey Boy **** (2019, Shia LaBeouf, Lucas Hedges, Noah Jupe, Laura San Giacomo, FKA Twigs) – Movie Review
More than just a bit uncomfortably, Shia LaBeouf plays a version of his own domineering father in Honey Boy (2019), an ex-rodeo clown with a prison record called James Lort, in LaBeouf’s thinly semi-fictionalised story […]
Opening Night **** (1977, Gena Rowlands, Ben Gazzara, John Cassavetes, Joan Blondell, Paul Stewart, Zohra Lampert)- Classic Movie Review 9,089
Gena Rowlands is splendid as an ageing actress devastated when her biggest fan dies in an accident on her opening night, in John Cassavetes’s appealing 1977 drama film Opening Night. A long (it runs 144 […]
The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] **** (1983, Michael Caine, Richard Gere, Bob Hoskins) – Classic Movie Review 8952
Director John Mackenzie’s 1983 British drama The Honorary Consul [Beyond the Limit] is based on the novel by Graham Greene and stars Michael Caine at his best and most convincing as the drunken honorary British […]
The Crowd Roars **** (1938, Robert Taylor, Edward Arnold, Frank Morgan, Maureen O’Sullivan, William Gargan) – Classic Movie Review 8895
Director Richard Thorpe’s tough 1938 MGM black and white boxing drama The Crowd Roars stars pretty boy Robert Taylor [real name Spangler Arlington Brugh] as Tommy McCoy, who fights his way through to a manlier […]
The Champ *** (1931, Wallace Beery, Jackie Cooper, Irene Rich, Roscoe Ates) – Classic Movie Review 8640
Wallace Beery won a Best Actor in a Leading Role Oscar (shared with Fredric March in Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde) and Frances Marion won for Best Original Story for director King Vidor’s 1931 tearjerker […]