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Parrish *** (1961, Troy Donahue, Claudette Colbert, Karl Malden, Dean Jagger, Connie Stevens) – Classic Movie Review 3383

Writer-producer-director Delmer Daves, star Troy Donahue, composer Max Steiner and cinematographer Harry Stradling Sr all reunite after their 1959 success with A Summer Place for this new overwrought 1961 romantic drama, Parrish. The likeable and […]

Feb, 19

Winter Meeting * (1948, Bette Davis, Jim Davis, Janis Paige, John Hoyt, Florence Bates) – Classic Movie Review 2706

Director Bretaigne Windust’s 1948 movie is a ghastly romantic drama vehicle for Bette Davis. After so many brilliant movie and so many brilliant performances, this is the very kind of film that lost her her […]

Jul, 26

Mystic Pizza *** (1988, Annabeth Gish, Julia Roberts, Lili Taylor) – Classic Movie Review 1830

Director Donald Petrie’s delightful, easy-going 1988 comedy tells a charming if unsurprising tale of life, love and coming of age in the company of three feisty, attractive young women working at a pizza parlour in the […]

Nov, 10

The Stranger **** (1946, Edward G Robinson, Orson Welles, Loretta Young) – Classic Movie Review 1680

Director/star Orson Welles’s third movie after Citizen Kane and The Magnificent Ambersons is a less ambitious genre piece, but his underrated 1946 paranoia film noir thriller The Stranger is a darkly glowing little gem. An […]

Sep, 16

Far from Heaven ***** (2002, Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert) – Classic Movie Review 1532

Writer-director Todd Haynes’s 2002 masterwork drama profitably reunites him with the star of his 1995 movie Safe, Julianne Moore. She plays Cathy, a Fifties New England housewife who finds that her perfect husband Frank (Dennis […]

Aug, 10

The Stepford Wives ** (2004, Nicole Kidman, Glenn Close, Christopher Walken) – Classic Movie Review 1382

Nicole Kidman looks like she’d prefer to be somewhere else during director Frank Oz’s cheesy 2004 black comedy remake of the 1974 chiller about the too-perfect wives of a New England village. The first half hour […]

Jul, 01

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