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A Woman’s Secret *** (1949, Maureen O’Hara, Melvyn Douglas, Gloria Grahame, Victor Jory, Bill Williams) – Classic Movie Review 6,076

Director Nicholas Ray’s intriguing and unusual 1949 film noir-style mystery melodrama A Woman’s Secret, with hints of Mildred Pierce and All About Eve, is based on a 1946 novel called Mortgage on Life by Vicki […]

Oct, 11

A Fantastic Woman [Una Mujer Fantástica] **** (2017, Daniela Vega, Francisco Reyes, Luis Gnecco) – Movie Review 

Sebastián Lelio’s ground-breaking transgender drama and world cinema masterwork A Fantastic Woman (2017) triumphed at the Oscars by winning Best Foreign Language Film of the Year for Chile. It stars Chilean actress, lyrical singer and trans woman Daniela Vega, […]

Oct, 01

The Star Packer ** (1934, John Wayne, Verna Hillie, George ‘Gabby’ Hayes, Yakima Canutt) – Classic Movie Review 6047

‘He fought for justice–and battled for love! He fought for JUSTICE!– Battled for LOVE!’ Writer-director Robert N Bradbury’s brisk-paced, cheaply made early John Wayne B-Western, made in 1934, is the star’s first movie for poverty […]

Sep, 24

Body Bags *** (1993, Deborah Harry, Mark Hamill, Twiggy, Stacy Keach, Sheena Easton, John Carpenter, Robert Carradine, David Naughton, David Warner) – Classic Movie Review 5998

Directors John Carpenter and Tobe Hooper’s 1993 horror compendium TV movie delivers three chilling stories of the ghoulish, gruesome, gory and gross – The Gas Station, Hair and The Eye. The director John Carpenter stars […]

Aug, 29

The Nightcomers ** (1971, Marlon Brando, Stephanie Beacham, Thora Hird, Harry Andrews) – Classic Movie Review 5872

The ever-enterprising producer-director Michael Winner was a great entrepreneur and managed to film with some of cinema’s biggest names – here in 1971 it is Marlon Brando. The movies, well, they were something else. Based […]

Aug, 07

Wish Upon ** (2017, Joey King, Ryan Phillippe, Ki Hong Lee) – Movie Review

Joey King stars as motherless teenager Clare Shannon, whose dad likes to earn a living digging around for treasure in the trash he finds in dumpsters. One day, they discover a cute Chinese box that turns out […]

Aug, 01

Husbands **** (1970, Peter Falk, John Cassavetes, Ben Gazzara, Jenny Runacre) – Classic Movie Review 5729

Writer-director-star John Cassavetes’s intelligent and thoughtful epic 1970 film account of three buddies, Harry (Ben Gazzara), Archie Black (Peter Falk) and Gus Demetri (Cassavetes), out on the razzle after a common friend’s sudden death, is a startlingly […]

Jul, 08

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