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- The Guilty *** (2021, Jake Gyllenhaal) – Classic Movie Review 13,266
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- The Inspector General *** (1949, Danny Kaye, Walter Slezak, Barbara Bates, Elsa Lanchester, Gene Lockhart) – Classic Movie Review 13,264
- Yossi & Jagger ***½ (2002, Ohad Knoller, Yehuda Levi, Asi Cohen, Aya Koren) – Classic Movie Review 13,263
- Call Her Savage ** (1932, Clara Bow, Gilbert Roland, Monroe Owsley) – Classic Movie Review 13,262
- Dangerous Cargo ** (1954, Jack Watling, Susan Stephen, Karel Stepanek, Terence Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 13,261
- Yossi *** (2012, Ohad Knoller, Oz Zehavi, Lior Ashkenazi) – Classic Movie Review 13,260
- The Return of the Whistler **½ (1948, Michael Duane, Lenore Aubert, Richard Lane) – Classic Movie Review 13,259
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Posts Tagged "Death"
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Animal Factory *** (2000, Willem Dafoe, Edward Furlong, Danny Trejo, Mickey Rourke) – Classic Movie Review 1467
Director Steve Buscemi’s janglingly edgy 2000 movie stars Willem Dafoe as a shaven-headed old lag takes drug-dealing rich lad Edward Furlong under his wing. Furlong ‘s slight, privileged kid Ron Decker has landed up in San Quentin jail […]
The Mother **** (2003, Anne Reid, Daniel Craig, Peter Vaughan) – Classic Movie Review 1422
Director Roger Michell’s 2003 drama is a challenging, taboo-breaking eye-opener, with a provocative, poignant screenplay by Hanif Kureishi and marvellous, bold performances by Anne Reid and Daniel Craig. The husband (Peter Vaughan) of an English woman (Reid) […]
The Letter ***** (1940, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Victor Sen Yung, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 1340
‘Even my agony was a kind of joy!’, yells the great Bette Davis, who sins, kills, lies, cheats and publicly humiliates her forgiving husband Herbert Marshall in director William Wyler’s powerhouse, overwhelmingly haunting 1940 film […]
Lost Highway ***½ (1997, Bill Pullman, Patricia Arquette, Balthazar Getty, Natasha Gregson Wagner, Gary Busey, Giovanni Ribisi, Robert Loggia, Robert Blake) – Classic Movie Review 1315
Co-writer/director David Lynch’s infuriating, but imaginative and thrilling-looking 1997 surreal thriller film Lost Highway stars Bill Pullman as saxophonist Fred Madison, who dreams that he and his wife Renée (Patricia Arquette) are being watched by […]
The Mirror Crack’d *** (1980, Angela Lansbury, Elizabeth Taylor, Kim Novak, Tony Curtis, Rock Hudson, Edward Fox, Charles Gray, Wendy Morgan) – Classic Movie Review 1300
Thanks to her wonderfully camp and engaging appearance as a drunken romantic writer in Death on the Nile, Angela Lansbury was promoted to the plum star role of Agatha Christie’s nosy spinster sleuth Miss Jane […]
Death on the Nile **** (1978, Peter Ustinov, Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith, David Niven, Jon Finch, Jack Warden, George Kennedy, Simon MacCorkindale, Harry Andrews, Jane Birkin, Mia Farrow, Olivia Hussey) – Classic Movie Review 1299
Peter Ustinov’s Hercule Poirot investigates the murder of a selfish heiress (Lois Chiles) on a Nile steamer, where all are suspects, in the 1978 film Death on the Nile. Angela Lansbury, Bette Davis, Maggie Smith […]
My Life Without Me **** (2003, Sarah Polley, Mark Ruffalo, Scott Speedman) – Classic Movie Review 1269
Writer-director Isabel Coixet’s 2003 Canadian-Spanish co-production is a great tearjerker. Sarah Polley tugs expertly at the heartstrings as a 23-year-old wife and mother dying of ovarian cancer in this depressing, but exquisitely done and warmly affecting […]