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Baby It’s You **** (1982, Rosanna Arquette, Vincent Spano, Joanna Merlin) – Classic Movie Review 5211

Writer-director John Sayles’s 1982 romantic comedy drama is an extremely pleasing 1960s-set high school story about two mismatched lovers – an Italian boy with serious clothes an an attitude problem and the pretty Jewish schoolgirl […]

Mar, 28

American Graffiti **** (1973, Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul LeMat, Charles Martin Smith, Candy Clark, Cindy Williams) – Classic Movie Review 4,739

George Lucas’s incisive, nostalgia-fuelled 1973 hit comedy drama film American Graffiti is propelled by 40 superlative songs of the Sixties, and effortlessly captures the flavour of the era. In 1962, four small-town California high-school graduate […]

Dec, 02

Tucker: The Man and His Dream **** (1988, Jeff Bridges, Martin Landau, Joan Allen, Lloyd Bridges, Christian Slater, Dean Stockwell) – Classic Movie Review 4730

Director Francis Ford Coppola turns his 1988 biopic of maverick car designer Preston Tucker -and the story of how dream of building the revolutionary ‘car of tomorrow today’ was quashed by the auto giants of […]

Dec, 02

Rabbit Hole **** (2010, Nicole Kidman, Aaron Eckhart, Dianne Wiest, Miles Teller) – Classic Movie Review 4605

Playing to all her strengths at her impeccable finest, Oscar-nominated Nicole Kidman gives arguably her best ever performance as Becca Corbett, a mother whose young son Danny has been killed by a teenager driver. Glacial […]

Nov, 07

The Fast and the Furious: Tokyo Drift *** (2006, Lucas Black, Zachery Ty Bryan, Nathalie Kelley, Sung Kang, Bow Wow, Brian Tee) – Classic Movie Review 4536

Director Justin Lin’s 2006 American action movie sequel is exciting, busy, fast moving and action packed. It is The Fast and the Furious 3 is all but name. Rebooting the franchise, it stars Lucas Black as American teenager Sean […]

Oct, 26

Ragtime **** (1981, James Cagney, Elizabeth McGovern, Howard E Rollins Jr, James Olson, Mary Steenburgen, Pat O’Brien, Brad Dourif) – Classic Movie Review 3664

Director Milos Forman’s 1981 drama tempted the 81-year-old James Cagney out of retirement for one final appearance in the cinema, though he made one more TV movie, Terrible Joe Moran, in 1984. He had not […]

May, 06

Queen Bee *** (1955, Joan Crawford, Barry Sullivan, Betsy Palmer, John Ireland) – Classic Movie Review 3,381

The 1955 romantic melodrama film Queen Bee stars Joan Crawford as Southern socialite Eva Phillips, the matriarch determined to rule her household with a rod of steel. Crawford obviously relishes her wildly over-the-top bad gal […]

Feb, 19

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