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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
- Attempt to Kill ** (1961, Tony Wright, Derek Farr, Richard Pearson, Freda Jackson) – Classic Movie Review 13,326
- A Hitch in Time *** (1978, Patrick Troughton, Michael McVey, Pheona McLellan, Jeff Rawle, Sorcha Cusack) – Classic Movie Review 13,325
- Man at the Carlton Tower *** (1961, Maxine Audley, Lee Montague, Alfred Burke, Allan Cuthbertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,324
- Beyond the Door [Chi Sei?] [The Devil Within Her] * (1974, Juliet Mills, Richard Johnson, Gabriele Lavia, Elizabeth Turner, David Colin Jr) – Classic Movie Review 13,323
- Beyond the Door II [Schock] *** (1979, Daria Nicolodi, John Steiner, David Colin Jr, Ivan Rassimov) – Classic Movie Review 13,322
- Blood Red ** (1989, Eric Roberts, Giancarlo Giannini, Dennis Hopper, Burt Young) – Classic Movie Review 13,321
- The Fourth Square *** (1961, Conrad Phillips, Natasha Parry, Delphi Lawrence, Miriam Karlin, Jacqueline Jones, Anthony Newlands, Basil Dignam, Harold Kasket) – Classic Movie Review 13,316
- Black Memory *** (1947, Michael Atkinson, Michael Medwin, Myra O’Connell, Jane Arden, Frank Hawkins) – Classic Movie Review 13,320
- The Velvet Touch **** (1948, Rosalind Russell, Leo Genn, Sydney Greenstreet, Claire Trevor, Leon Ames, Frank McHugh, Walter Kingsford) – Classic Movie Review 13,319
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The Queen ***** (2006, Helen Mirren, Michael Sheen, James Cromwell, Helen McCrory) – Classic Movie Review 11,104
Helen Mirren is absolutely brilliant in the title role of Queen Elizabeth II in the vastly entertaining 2006 biographical drama film, sweeping all before her on the way to winning the Academy Award for Best […]
Immortal Beloved * (1994, Gary Oldman, Jeroen Krabbé, Isabella Rossellini, Marco Hofschneider) – Classic Movie Review 10,354
Writer-director Bernard Rose’s fumbled 1994 film Immortal Beloved is a plush but pretty tedious historical biopic, with Gary Oldman bravely battling miscasting as musical ‘genius’ Ludwig van Beethoven, with the mystery of the composer’s Unsterbliche […]
And the Band Played On ***** (1993, Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Ian McKellen, Richard Gere, Lily Tomlin, Patrick Bauchau) – Classic Movie Review 10,302
The urgent and timely 1993 American TV docudrama film And the Band Played On is directed by Roger Spottiswoode, who turns Randy Shilts’s controversial book about how and why the AIDS crisis happened into a […]
A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood *** (2019, Tom Hanks, Matthew Rhys, Chris Cooper) – Movie Review
Tom Hanks’s Best Supporting Actor Oscar-nominated performance as TV host star Fred Rogers in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood is skilled, appealing and ingratiating. It gets right under your skin. It is better than […]
The Outsider *** (1961, Tony Curtis, James Franciscus, Gregory Walcott, Bruce Bennett) – Classic Movie Review 8921
Tony Curtis plays an Indian who fights in WWII and helps to raise the flag at Iwo Jima. Director Delbert Mann’s sincere and well-meaning 1961 war drama The Outsider stars Tony Curtis, who puts in […]
Whitney **** (2018, Whitney Houston, Bobbi Kristina Brown, Bobby Brown, Cissy Houston) – Movie Review
Loved it! Director Kevin Macdonald’s in-depth film Whitney is an extremely powerful and disturbing documentary telling the ultimately tragic story of chart-topping singer Whitney Houston, with marvellous archive footage and intimately revealing interviews. With access to the Houston […]
Freud **** (1962, Montgomery Clift, Susannah York, Larry Parks) – Classic Movie Review 7186
A bearded, haunted looking Montgomery Clift’s intelligent performance as the famous Viennese psychiatrist Dr Sigmund Freud (1856-1939), the clear and riveting direction by John Huston, and Charles Kaufman and Wolfgang Reinhardt’s revealing screenplay all combine […]