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The Terence Davies Trilogy **** (1983, Phillip Mawdsley, Nick Stringer, Valerie Lilley, Terry O’Sullivan, Sheila Raynor, Wilfrid Brambell) – Classic Movie Review 5156

Writer-director Terence Davies’s outstanding first film is an impressive achievement in bleak memoir, cohering satisfyingly, though made up from three autobiographical short films made over a period of six years or so. The anthology film […]

Mar, 15

Boys Town **** (1938, Spencer Tracy, Mickey Rooney, Henry Hull) – Classic Movie Review 5020

Director Norman Taurog’s quintessentially sincere 1938 double Oscar-winning biographical drama provides an excellent showcase for Spencer Tracy, who won his second Best Actor Oscar in consecutive years for his iconic performance in the role of […]

Feb, 12

Captains Courageous **** (1937, Spencer Tracy, Lionel Barrymore, Freddie Bartholomew, Mickey Rooney, Melvyn Douglas) – Classic Movie Review 5019

Director Victor Fleming’s 1937 MGM movie of the novel by Rudyard Kipling is a bit creaky, dated and faded now, but it is still very enjoyable and entertaining thanks to the well-told, rattlingly good yarn, […]

Feb, 10

Dinosaurus! *** (1960, Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, Kristina Hanson) – Classic Movie Review 4861

Co-producer/ director Irvin S Yeaworth Jr’s 1960 sci-fi comedy fantasy film Dinosaurus! is hard to dislike, easy to laugh with or at, and very possible to enjoy. It stars Ward Ramsey, Paul Lukather, and Kristina Hanson. […]

Jan, 08

See Spot Run ** (2001, David Arquette, Paul Sorvino, Joe Viterelli, Michael Clarke Duncan, Leslie Bibb) – Classic Movie Review 4827

Director John Whitesell’s 2001 action canine crime comedy is harmless but extremely silly and crude, with David Arquette coping quite well as Gordon, a barking mad postman who agrees to babysit a pampered pooch — […]

Dec, 30

Something Wicked This Way Comes ***½ (1983, Jason Robards, Jonathan Pryce, Diane Ladd, Pam Grier, Royal Dano, Richard Davalos) – Classic Movie Review 4588

Vidal Peterson and Shawn Carson play 12-year-old boys Will Halloway and Jim Nightshade who search for the secret of a creepy carnival that visits their Illinois small town, in director Jack Clayton’s smoothly scary 1983 […]

Nov, 04

Cujo *** (1983, Dee Wallace, Daniel Hugh Kelly, Danny Pintauro, Ed Lauter, Christopher Stone) – Classic Movie Review 4565

Stephen King’s shaggy dog story about a nice 200lb St Bernard dog, who turns bat-bitten rabid killer and mounts a reign of terror on an American small town, is filmed by director Lewis Teague in […]

Oct, 29

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