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Dangerous **** (1935, Bette Davis, Franchot Tone, Margaret Lindsay) – Classic Movie Review 2,697

Warner Bros’ 1935 drama film Dangerous stars Bette Davis at her early finest. Her florid, mannered but still effective acting secured the 27-year-old rising star her first Best Actress Oscar. Director Alfred E Green’s 1935 […]

Jul, 14

Love on the Run [L’Amour en Fuite] ***½ (1979, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Claude Jade, Marie-France Pisier, Dani, Dorothée) – Classic Movie Review 2590

Co-writer/director François Truffaut puts his alter ego film-self Antoine Doinel in the spotlight again in 1979 for the fifth and final time, as Jean-Pierre Léaud re-creates his most famous role in this amiable sequel movie. […]

Jun, 13

The Private Life of Henry VIII ***** (1933, Charles Laughton, Robert Donat, Franklin Dyall, Merle Oberon, Elsa Lanchester, Binnie Barnes) – Classic Movie Review 2495

Producer-director Alexander Korda’s 1933 triumph The Private Life of Henry VIII was the first British movie to enjoy worldwide success. It was an even sweeter triumph because at the time period films were considered to […]

May, 17

Clouds of Sils Maria ***** (2014, Juliette Binoche, Kristen Stewart, Chloë Grace Moretz) – Movie Review

Juliette Binoche is on commanding form as Maria Enders, a fading veteran star actress who reluctantly agrees to take part in a revival of the play that launched her career 20 years earlier. Back then Maria […]

May, 12

Easy Virtue *** (1928, Isabel Jeans, Franklin Dyall, Eric Bransby Williams, Robin Irvine, Ian Hunter) – Classic Movie Review 2287

‘Virtue is its own reward’ they say — but ‘easy virtue’ is society’s reward for a slandered reputation. Director Alfred Hitchcock’s 1928 romantic film is a rather unsatisfactory silent movie of Noël Coward’s interesting 1924 […]

Mar, 20

Kramer vs. Kramer ***** (1979, Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Jane Alexander) – Classic Movie Review 2065

Writer-director Robert Benton hones this four-hankie, five-Oscar-winning tearjerker tale of a tug-of-love between workaholic advertising executive Ted Kramer (Dustin Hoffman) and ex-wife Joanna (Meryl Streep) over their seven-year-old son Billy (Justin Henry) into highly polished 1979 movie.  […]

Jan, 10

Secret Window *** (2004, Johnny Depp, Maria Bello, John Turturro) – Classic Movie Review 1627

Writer-director David Koepp’s erratically amusing 2004 thriller has the right star in Johnny Depp, who puts a gloss of polish on Stephen King’s chiller as Mort Rainey, an author afflicted by a bad hairstyle, writer’s […]

Sep, 02

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