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The Lamp Still Burns **** (1943, Rosamund John, Stewart Granger, Godfrey Tearle, Joyce Grenfell, Megs Jenkins) – Classic Movie Review 6962
Director Maurice Elvey’s heartfelt 1943 British nursing and romantic drama is adapted from the novel One Pair of Feet by Monica Dickens and tells the tale of the trials and tribulations of young nurses during […]
Heller in Pink Tights *** (1960, Sophia Loren, Anthony Quinn, Eileen Heckart, Ramon Novarro, Margaret O’Brien, Steve Forrest, Edmund Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6923
Director George Cukor’s 1960 movie Heller in Pink Tights stars Sophia Loren and Anthony Quinn, who give vivacious, attractive performances that boost an amusing, freewheeling comedy Western about an 1880s theatrical troupe who fight Indians, […]
Daisy Miller ** (1974, Cybill Shepherd, Barry Brown, Cloris Leachman, Mildred Natwick, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 6913
Cybill Shepherd stars as the Henry James heroine Daisy Miller in producer-director Peter Bogdanovich’s classy and sumptuous period romantic comedy drama of manners. If it has its charms, certainly visually, it can nevertheless still seem […]
Ready Player One *** (2018, Tye Sheridan, Olivia Cooke, Ben Mendelsohn, Mark Rylance) – Movie Review
Steven Spielberg takes a fairly weak screen story and bashes all hell into it to make it a spectacular looking CGI-led flashy virtual reality movie, set in 2045, when the virtual world seems better than […]
Love, Simon **** (2018, Nick Robinson, Jennifer Garner, Josh Duhamel) – Movie Review
‘Dear Moviegoers, Please form a line at concessions. It doesn’t have to be straight. Love, Simon.’ Here’s to you, Mr Robinson. Can a whole movie hang on its hero’s smile and charm? Yes, apparently it can. Nick […]
A Wrinkle in Time * (2018, Storm Reid, Levi Miller, Deric McCabe, Oprah Winfrey, Reese Witherspoon, Mindy Kaling, Chris Pine) – Movie Review
Director Ava DuVernay’s Disney kids and early-teen movie for easily entertained girls is embarrassingly awful, with a shamelessly manipulative and sentimental screenplay by Jennifer Lee and Jeff Stockwell, based upon the novel by Madeleine L’Engle. It plays like a […]
Esther Waters [Sin of Esther Waters] *** (1947, Kathleen Ryan, Dirk Bogarde, Cyril Cusack, Ivor Barnard, Fay Compton, Mary Clare) – Classic Movie Review 6858
Producer-directors Ian Dalrymple and Peter Proud’s 1947 melodrama takes us back to the bad old days of the 19th century when sweet young kitchen maids like Esther Waters (Kathleen Ryan) could be used and abused […]