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Doppelgänger [Journey to the Far Side of the Sun] *** (1969, Roy Thinnes, Ian Hendry, Patrick Wymark, Lynn Loring) – Classic Movie Review 10,063

Director Robert Parrish’s 1969 Doppelgänger [Journey to the Far Side of the Sun] is an involving, often imaginative British science-fiction film, set 100 years ahead in 2069. It stars Roy Thinnes as Colonel Glenn Ross, […]

Jul, 20

Where’s Poppa? **** (1970, George Segal, Ruth Gordon, Ron Leibman) – Classic Movie Review 7979

Director Carl Reiner’s wicked 1970 comedy Where’s Poppa? is a hilarious black farce, with marvellous comedy performances from the treasurable George Segal and Ruth Gordon as the Jewish attorney Gordon Hocheiser and his grotesque, crazy, […]

Jan, 04

The Leisure Seeker * (2017 Helen Mirren, Donald Sutherland, Christian McKay, Janel Moloney) –

Mirren and Sutherland give impeccable performances as troubled oldsters in this quirky bitter-sweet comedy road drama in which they set of in their vintage camper van The Leisure Seeker for one last ride. International treasures […]

Apr, 19

Finding Your Feet ** (2017, Timothy Spall, Imelda Staunton, Celia Imrie, Joanna Lumley, David Hayman, John Sessions, Josie Lawrence) – Movie Review

Finding Your Feet is a guaranteed crowd pleaser with two bona fide national treasures in Imelda Staunton and Timothy Spall, plus a great performance by Celia Imrie. Director Richard Loncraine’s often funny and charming Finding Your […]

Feb, 25

Robot & Frank **** (2012, Frank Langella, James Marsden, Liv Tyler, Susan Sarandon, Peter Sarsgaard) – Classic Movie Review 4790

Frank Langella is lovely as an old man whose son gives him a robot programmed to take care of him. Then the one-time catburglar jewel thief and his new robot butler caretaker (voice of Peter […]

Dec, 17

Iris **** (2001, Judi Dench, Jim Broadbent, Kate Winslet, Hugh Bonneville) – Classic Movie Review 1695

Judi Dench and Jim Broadbent are heartbreaking in co-writer/director Richard Eyre’s sterling 2001 biopic of acclaimed British author Iris Murdoch. The film chronicles her life from her time at Oxford, where she met the love […]

Sep, 20

Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte ***** (1964, Bette Davis, Olivia de Havilland, Joseph Cotten, Agnes Moorehead, Mary Astor, Victor Buono, Cecil Kellaway, Wesley Addy) – Classic Movie Review 737

The 1964 follow-up movie Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte is less iconic but perhaps an even smarter mystery horror thriller film, with Bette Davis returning triumphantly from What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?  Director Robert Aldrich’s […]

Jan, 23

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