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Firebird **** (2021, Tom Prior, Oleg Zagorodnii, Nicholas Woodeson, Diana Pozharskaya) – Movie Review

Director Peeter Rebane’s ambitious 2021 romantic drama Firebird is an intelligent, thoughtful, moving and involving true gay love story set against the repressive background of a Soviet Air Force Base in the era of the […]

Mar, 20

Reds **** (1981, Warren Beatty, Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Maureen Stapleton, Paul Sorvino, Gene Hackman) – Classic Movie Review 4799

Director Warren Beatty won the Academy Award for Best Director for his fascinating, sometimes riveting 1981 film about the life  of communist American -radical journalist John Reed from 1913 through his involvement in the 1917 […]

Dec, 21

One, Two, Three **** (1961, James Cagney, Horst Buchholz, Pamela Tiffin, Arlene Francis, Howard St John) – Classic Movie Review 3666

At 61, James Cagney is supremely energetic and wickedly funny in his last film before he retired for 20 years till his surprise comeback in Ragtime (1981). In Billy Wilder’s 1961 movie classic Cold War […]

May, 06

The Day the Earth Stood Still ***** (1951, Michael Rennie, Patricia Neal, Hugh Marlowe, Sam Jaffe, Hugh Marlowe) – Classic Movie Review 3648

Director Robert Wise’s classic 1951 sci-fi movie The Day the Earth Stood Still stars Michael Rennie as a humanoid alien visitor who arrives on planet Earth in Washington from space to tell us Earthlings that […]

May, 02

Guilty by Suspicion *** (1991, Robert De Niro, Annette Bening, Patricia Wettig, George Wendt, Sam Wanamaker, Barry Primus) – Classic Movie Review 3373

Writer-director Irwin Winkler’s 1991 drama is an interesting and sincere but mild drama of the Hollywood blacklist intrigues. It is an intelligently written reminder of some uncomfortable facts of Hollywood’s – and America’s – past, […]

Feb, 17

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