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- Teenage Monster * (1957, Anne Gwynne, Stuart Wade, Gloria Costello, Gilbert Perkins, Jim McCullough, Stephen Parker) – Classic Movie Review 13,214
- The Centre of My World [Die Mitte der Welt] **** (2016, Louis Hofmann, Sabine Timoteo, Jannik Schümann, Ada Philine Stappenbeck) – Classic Movie Review 13,213
- The Senator [O Senador] **½ (2024, Sergio Harger, Johnny Alcántara, Juliana Zancanaro, João Cury) – Classic Movie Review 13,212
- Rogue’s Yarn * (1957, Nicole Maurey, Derek Bond) – Classic Movie Review 13,211
- Crow Hollow ** (1952, Donald Houston, Natasha Parry, Patricia Owens) – Classic Movie Review 13,210
- Carny *** (1980, Gary Busey, Jodie Foster, Robbie Robertson) – Classic Movie Review 13,209
- Carnival Story ** (1954, Anne Baxter, Steve Cochran, Lyle Bettger, George Nader, Jay C Flippen) – Classic Movie Review 13,208
- The Weaker Sex * (1948, Ursula Jeans, Cecil Parker, Joan Hopkins, Derek Bond, Lana Morris, Thora Hird) – Classic Movie Review 13,207
- The Great Smokey Roadblock [The Last of the Cowboys] *** (1977, Henry Fonda, Eileen Brennan) – Classic Movie Review 13,206
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The Cell ** (2000, Jennifer Lopez, Vince Vaughn, Vincent D’Onofrio) – Classic Movie Review 4810
Director Tarsem Singh’s 2000 thriller stars Vince Vaughn as FBI agent Peter Novak, who tries to save a girl whom a sick serial killer (Vincent D’Onofrio) has trapped in a water-tank cell somewhere, with the […]
Lonesome Jim *** (2005, Casey Affleck, Liv Tyler, Mary Kay Place, Seymour Cassel, Kevin Corrigan) – Classic Movie Review 4319
Based on a talented first original screenplay by James C Strouse, this is a fresh, funny and truthful-seeming dark comedy. Casey Affleck is word perfect as the Lonesome Jim of the title, a depressed 27-year-old […]
The 9th Life of Louis Drax ***½ (2016, Jamie Dornan, Aiden Longworth, Sarah Gadon, Molly Parker, Aaron Paul, Barbara Hershey, Oliver Platt) – Movie Review
Jamie Dornan stars as Dr Allan Pascal, who is drawn into the mystery of his coma patient, accident-prone nine-year-old Louis Drax (Aiden Longworth), who has suffered a lifetime of curious mishaps culminating in his near-fatal fall […]
The Clay Pigeon **** (1949, Bill Williams, Barbara Hale, Richard Quine, Richard Loo, Frank Fenton, Martha Hyer, Frank Wilcox) – Classic Movie Review 4309
Director Richard Fleischer’s neat and short (63 minutes) 1949 black and white film noir movie The Clay Pigeon is one of those vintage Forties thrillers with the familiar but usually effective set-up of an amnesiac […]
Coma **** (1978, Geneviève Bujold, Michael Douglas, Rip Torn, Richard Widmark, Lois Chiles, Elizabeth Ashley, Tom Selleck, Ed Harris) – Classic Movie Review 4142
Writer-director Michael Crichton’s hit 1978 medical thriller is 110% all it needs to be, tense, suspenseful, unusually unsettling and particularly satisfying. An ideally cast Geneviève Bujold is really effective as a feisty and intrepid junior […]
Good Bye Lenin! **** (2003, Daniel Brühl, Katrin Saß, Chulpan Khamatova, Maria Simon, Florian Lukas) – Classic Movie Review 3886
An East German committed communist mother (Katrin Saß) falls into a coma just before the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. When she awakes eight months later, her son Alex (Daniel Brühl) has to […]
Devil Doll *** (1964, Bryant Haliday, William Sylvester, Yvonne Romain, Sandra Dorne, Karel Stepanek, Philip Ray) – Classic Movie Review 3,120
Co-producer/director Lindsay Shonteff’s low-budget gothic 1964 British horror movie Devil Doll stars Bryant Halliday as the evil hypnotist/ ventriloquist The Great Vorelli. Vorelli puts heiress Marianne Horn (Yvonne Romain), the girlfriend of an American reporter […]