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A Month in the Country *** (1987, Colin Firth, Kenneth Branagh, Natasha Richardson, Patrick Malahide, Tony Haygarth, Richard Vernon, Jim Carter) – Classic Movie Review 8702

Director Pat O’Connor’s 1987 British drama A Month in the Country is a subtle film version of J L Carr’s novel, made with TV in mind but promoted to a cinema release. The tale is […]

Jul, 13

Amazing Grace ** (2018, Aretha Franklin, James Cleveland) – Movie Review

Director Sydney Pollack was totally inexperienced in shooting any kind of music documentary when he directed the fascinating music documentary Amazing Grace (2018) that documents the two nights in Watts, Los Angeles in January 1972 when […]

May, 13

Easy Down There! [Doucement les basses] [Take it Easy] ** (1971, Alain Delon, Nathalie Delon, Paul Meurisse) – Classic Movie Review 8434

Husband and wife team (though by the time of this movie they were already divorced) Alain and Nathalie Delon star in director Jacques Deray’s rather disappointing 1971 attempt at a comedy Easy Down There! [Doucement […]

May, 05

Cabin in the Sky **** (1943, Ethel Waters, Eddie ‘Rochester’ Anderson, Lena Horne) – Classic Movie Review 8315

The MGM studio assigned musicals specialist Vincente Minnelli to Cabin in the Sky, the 1943 film of the then rare all-black cast musical, retelling the Faust legend, in which God (Kenneth Spencer as The General […]

Mar, 31

Satan Never Sleeps * (1962, Clifton Webb, William Holden, France Nuyen, Athene Seyler) – Classic Movie Review 8124

Satan Never Sleeps…but you may. Director Leo McCarey bows out on a real low spot in 1962 with this gobsmackingly boring tale about two priests (Clifton Webb as Father Bovard, William Holden as Father O’Banion) […]

Feb, 13

El **** (1953, Arturo de Córdova, Delia Garcés, Aurora Walker, Manuel Dondé) – Classic Movie Review 7637

Director Luis Buñuel’s 1952 Mexican movie El (aka This Strange Passion, or Torments) stars Arturo de Córdova as the middle-aged, wealthy, suave and uptight Francisco Galván de Montemayor, who is consumed with paranoid, raging jealousy after […]

Oct, 04

First Reformed ***** (2017, Ethan Hawke, Amanda Seyfried, Cedric the Entertainer) – Movie Review

Ethan Hawke gives a brilliant performance First Reformed (2017) – it must be his best so far – as the Reverend Holler, the already troubled, anguished priest of a historic tourist church with no congregation in upstate […]

May, 31

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