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The Two Mrs Carrolls *** (1947, Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith, Nigel Bruce) – Classic Movie Review 2256

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1947 American mystery film The Two Mrs Carrolls is based on the 1935 play by Martin Vale and stars Humphrey Bogart, Barbara Stanwyck, Alexis Smith and Nigel Bruce. Bogart honeymooned with Lauren […]

Mar, 12

The Woman in White **** (1948, Eleanor Parker, Sydney Greenstreet, Gig Young, Alexis Smith, Agnes Moorehead) – Classic Movie Review 2175

Director Peter Godfrey’s 1948 film version of Wilkie Collins’s famous classic Gothic novel The Woman in White is a rich and thoroughly enjoyable entertainment. At its centre, Sydney Greenstreet gives an enormously compelling, masterly villainous […]

Feb, 13

Scarlet Street ***** (1945, Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett, Dan Duryea) – Classic Movie Review 2173

Director Fritz Lang is in his element with the splendidly dark and menacing 1945 black and white film noir movie Scarlet Street starring Edward G Robinson, Joan Bennett and Dan Duryea. It is one of […]

Feb, 12

Trauma *½ (2004, Colin Firth, Mena Suvari, Kenneth Cranham, Naomie Harris, Dorothy Duffy) – Classic Movie Review 2153

Director Marc Evans’s 2004 thriller stars Colin Firth as Ben, who wakes up from a coma after a car crash to find that his wife is dead, and he starts hallucinating. A few weeks later, […]

Feb, 03

Down to You ** (2000, Freddie Prinze Jr, Julia Stiles, Selma Blair) – Classic Movie Review 1758

Writer-director Kris Isacsson’s 2000 effort is a sweet, light-weight, warm-hearted romantic comedy and relationship movie in which a nice, sympathetic guy wins and loses his first serious love of his life. Freddie Prinze Jr stars as Al Connelly, […]

Oct, 11

Stealing Beauty ** (1995, Liv Tyler, Joseph Fiennes) – Classic Movie Review 1501

Co-writer/director Bernardo Bertolucci’s gorgeous-looking but mostly rather obnoxious 1995 Italian-holiday drama has a pretty specious script that largely defeats an exceptionally talented, very special cast. Liv Tyler stars as a pubescent young American girl, 19-year-old Lucy […]

Jul, 31

Basquiat *** (1996, David Bowie, Dennis Hopper, Gary Oldman, Jeffrey Wright, Benicio Del Toro, Michael Wincott, Courtney Love, Christopher Walken, Willem Dafoe) – Classic Movie Review 816

Artist Julian Schnabel’s 1996 portrait of the New York art scene of the 80s and Jean-Michel Basquiat in particular, who in 1981 is propelled from an unknown 19-year-old graffiti writer into a rich and much-courted famous […]

Feb, 09

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