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The Lost Weekend ***** (1945, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Phillip Terry) – Classic Movie Review 1030

Co-writer/director Billy Wilder’s coruscating, much-admired four-Oscar-winning 1945 drama proved Ray Milland’s greatest triumph in the movies and one of director Wilder’s. It won the Oscar for Best Picture and the Grand Prix at the Cannes Film Festival. Milland […]

Apr, 01

Under Capricorn **** (1949, Ingrid Bergman, Joseph Cotten, Michael Wilding, Margaret Leighton, Cecil Parker) – Classic Movie Review 452

‘Mystery, murder and passion from the master of suspense’. Yes, the 1949 British historical thriller Under Capricorn is business as usual from Alfred Hitchcock, but with a little bit of a twist. It is not […]

Nov, 26

Man on Fire **** (2004, Denzel Washington, Christopher Walken, Dakota Fanning, Mickey Rourke, Giancarlo Giannini, Rachel Ticotin, Marc Anthony) – Classic Movie Review 256

Both Denzel Washington and his true Brit director Tony Scott are on fire with this pounding, in-your-face 2004 thriller, based on the novel by A J Quinnell. It’s exhilarating and scary high-adrenaline stuff, delivered at full pelt […]

Sep, 21

The World’s End *** (2013, Simon Pegg, Nick Frost, Martin Freeman) – Movie Review

Simon Pegg and Nick Frost return for the third part of what’s now apparently a loose trilogy of Britcoms. Pegg and co-writer/director Edgar Wright call it The Blood and Ice Cream Trilogy. So, just one […]

Jul, 09

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