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- The Thirteenth Hour *** (1947, Richard Dix, Karen Morley, John Kellogg, Jim Bannon, Regis Toomey) – Classic Movie Review 13,256
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- The Secret of the Whistler *** (1946, Richard Dix, Leslie Brooks, Michael Duane, Mary Currier, Mona Barrie, Claire Du Brey) – Classic Movie Review 13,253
- Kiss the Boys Goodbye **½ (1941, Don Ameche, Mary Martin, Oscar Levant) – Classic Movie Review 13,252
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The Magdalene Sisters **** (2002, Geraldine McEwan, Anne-Marie Duff, Eileen Walsh, Dorothy Duffy, Nora-Jane Noone) – Classic Movie Review 2144
Writer-director Peter Mullan’s austere 2002 drama stars Geraldine McEwan, who gives a tour de force as the sadistic Catholic Sister Bridget at a Sixties Irish girls’ institution, a Magdalene Sisters Asylum for young women. There, […]
The Brothers McMullen *** (1995, Edward Burns, Mike McGlone, Jack Mulcahy, Maxine Bahns) – Classic Movie Review 1609
Producer-writer-director Edward Burns’s 1995 indie hit focuses on three Catholic Irish-American brothers (played by Burns, Mike McGlone and Jack Mulcahy) from Long Island. They are having women problems, with love, marriage and infidelity, and are having […]
Elizabeth **** (1998, Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush) – Classic Movie Review 1310
Director Shekhar Kapur’s splendid 1998 historical thriller stars Cate Blanchett, ageing and maturing convincingly through a long reign in a scaldingly exciting performance as the steely Queen Elizabeth I, crowned Queen at 25. Winning the […]
Bad Education [La Mala Educación] **** (2004, Gael García Bernal, Fele Martínez, Javier Cámara) – Classic Movie Review 826
With La Mala Educación in 2004, Spanish writer-director Pedro Almodóvar returns to the style and content of the films that made him famous in the Eighties with this provocative and sizzlingly stylish look at male […]
Dangerous Liaisons ***** (1988, Glenn Close, John Malkovich, Uma Thurman, Michelle Pfeiffer, Swoosie Kurtz, Mildred Natwick, Keanu Reeves, Peter Capaldi) – Classic Movie Review 307
Director Stephen Frears’s dazzling 1988 movie of Christopher Hampton’s award-winning London and Broadway hit stage play Les Liaisons Dangereuses is scaldingly exciting. You can just feel the sexual heat radiating from it. Based on the […]
Philomena **** (2013, Judi Dench, Steve Coogan, Sophie Kennedy Clark, Barbara Jefford, Mare Winningham) – Movie Review
Sacked from the BBC News, Martin Sixsmith, a real-life world-weary political journalist is approached at a party by a young woman, who asks him to investigate the story of Philomena Lee, an elderly Irish woman searching for […]
In the Name of *** (2013, Andrzej Chyra, Mateusz Kosciukiewicz, Maja Ostaszewska, Lukasz Simlat, Tomasz Schuchardt, Maria Maj) – Movie Review
Malgorzata Szumowska, the Polish director of Elles (2011) starring Juliette Binoche and 33 Scenes from Life (2008), boldly goes and confidently tackles a very tricky, long taboo topic with the surprisingly unsettling and subtle In the […]