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The Accidental Tourist **** (1988, William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis) – Classic Movie Review 9246

Director Lawrence Kasdan’s sweet and moving 1988 film The Accidental Tourist stars William Hurt as successful Baltimore travel guide writer Macon Leary, alone, withdrawn and unhappy after his son is accidentally killed in a robbery […]

Jan, 09

The Piano **** (1993, Holly Hunter, Harvey Keitel, Sam Neill, Anna Paquin, Kerry Walker) – Classic Movie Review 6387

Director Jane Campion’s triumphant 1993 romantic drama is probably her best, most famous, most successful movie. On a $7 million cost, it earned $40 million in the US alone. It won three Oscars, for Best Actress […]

Dec, 10

Separate Tables **** (1958, Burt Lancaster, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Deborah Kerr, Wendy Hiller, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 5970

The double Oscar-winning 1958 black-and-white drama film Separate Tables is a Hollywood version of Terence Rattigan’s renowned pair of one-act plays about the dramas of guests at an English south coast resort hotel. Director Delbert […]

Aug, 25

Steve Jobs **** (2015, Michael Fassbender, Kate Winslet, Seth Rogen, Michael Stuhlbarg) – Movie Review

Danny Boyle‘s 2015 movie casts Michael Fassbender as the architect of the digital revolution, Steve Jobs, the late CEO of Apple inc. Let’s be clear, this isn’t a biopic of Jobs. Instead it paints a […]

Nov, 11

All the King’s Men **** (1949, Broderick Crawford, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, Joanne Dru, John Derek) – Classic Movie Review 3045

Writer-director Robert Rossen’s 1949 drama stars Broderick Crawford, who won a Best Actor Oscar for his role as decent but ambitious Southern politician Willie Stark. But he loses his scruples climbing up the ladder to political success as […]

Nov, 09

The Grapes of Wrath ***** (1940, Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine) – Classic Movie Review 1825

Best Director John Ford and Best Supporting Actress Jane Darwell both won essential Oscars for this stupendous 1940 film of the John Steinbeck story about the odyssey of the Joads. They are a poor Oklahoma farming […]

Nov, 10

Ghost ***** (1990, Patrick Swayze, Demi Moore, Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Goldwyn) – Classic Movie Review 1820

Patrick Swayze etches his way into screen history with his starring role as the ghostly Sam Wheat here in director Jerry Zucker’s truly, madly, deeply entertaining and captivating 1990 romantic supernatural thriller. This crowd-pleasing tear-jerker is […]

Nov, 08

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