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Burn Burn Burn ***½ (2015, Laura Carmichael, Chloe Pirrie, Joe Dempsie, Jack Farthing, Jane Asher, Nigel Planer, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Alice Lowe, Sally Phillips, Alison Steadman) – Movie Review
Laura Carmichael (Lady Edith Crawley in Downton Abbey) and Chloe Pirrie star as busom buddies Seph and Alex, who attend the funeral of their best friend Dan (Jack Farthing), who has died of a rare cancer at 29. Dan’s […]
The Thirty-Nine Steps **** (1978, Robert Powell, Karen Dotrice, John Mills, Eric Porter, David Warner, George Baker, Ronald Pickup, Timothy West) – Classic Movie Review 4,491
Director Don Sharp’s extremely entertaining 1978 third film version of John Buchan’s novel The Thirty-Nine Steps finds its purpose in that it is finally a movie that is faithful to the book and its pre-First World […]
Manchester by the Sea **** (2016, Casey Affleck, Michelle Williams, Kyle Chandler, Lucas Hedges, Gretchen Mol, Matthew Broderick, C J Wilson) – Movie Review
Casey Affleck is outstanding as Lee Chandler, a New England uncle who is legally supposed to take care of his 16-year-old nephew Patrick ‘Patti’ (Lucas Hedges) when the boy’s father (Kyle Chandler) dies suddenly and makes him guardian in […]
Frantz **** (2016, Paula Beer, Pierre Niney, Ernst Stötzner, Marie Gruber, Anton von Lucke, Cyrielle Clair, Alice de Lencquesaing) – Movie Review
Writer-director François Ozon’s incredibly romantic, gorgeously bitter-sweet drama stars Paula Beer as young German woman Anna who is grieving the death of her fiancé Frantz in the fighting in World War One France. She lives in a German small town […]
Tower of London **** (1939, Basil Rathbone, Boris Karloff, Barbara O’Neil, Ian Hunter, Vincent Price, Nan Grey, John Sutton, Leo G Carroll, Miles Mander) – Classic Movie Review 4438
Producer-director Rowland V Lee’s stirring 1939 Universal horror movie successfully reworks William Shakespeare’s play Richard III as a rousing Gothic historical chiller, shot by George Robinson in classy black and white. Basil Rathbone stars as […]
The Long Ships ** (1964, Richard Widmark, Sidney Poitier, Russ Tamblyn, Rosanna Schiaffino, Oscar Homolka) – Classic Movie Review 4434
Richard Widmark is absurdly cast as Rolfe, a Viking adventurer, and Sidney Poitier not much better as Prince Aly Mansuh, leader of the Moors, who come to blows over the legendary Golden Bell, made of pure […]
The Cat and the Canary ** (1978, Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Beatrix Lehmann, Olivia Hussey, Daniel Massey, Carol Lynley, Peter McEnery) – Classic Movie Review 4427
Writer-director Radley Metzger’s forgettable 1978 British second remake of the classic old dark house comedy thriller at least boasts an interesting all-star cast. It stars Honor Blackman, Michael Callan, Edward Fox, Wendy Hiller, Beatrix Lehmann, Olivia […]