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Ju Dou [Judou] **** (1990, Gong Li, Li Wei, Zhang Yi) – Classic Movie Review 7880

Director Zhang Yimou’s 1990 film Ju Dou [Judou] is an engrossing Chinese-Japanese drama about an old man, a dye maker called Yang Jin-shan (Li Wei), coping with his gorgeous, young flirtatious new wife Ju Dou (the […]

Dec, 04

The Nanny **** (1965, Bette Davis, Jill Bennett, William Dix, James Villiers, Wendy Craig, Pamela Franklin, Maurice Denham, Jack Watling) – Classic Movie Review 6943

Director Seth Holt’s 1965 suspense thriller The Nanny stars Bette Davis, who came to Britain to Elstree Studios to work for Hammer Film Productions as the supposedly devoted English Nanny with a dark secret in charge of a disturbed little 10-year-old boy […]

Apr, 18

The Dark Eyes of London [The Human Monster] *** (1939, Bela Lugosi, Greta Gynt, Hugh Williams) – Classic Movie Review 3765

Director Walter Summers’s 1939 movie, retitled The Human Monster in the US, brings the great horror star Bela Lugosi to Britain to make this encouragingly daft horror picture based on Edgar Wallace’s novel. It is […]

May, 23

Hallam Foe **** (2007, Jamie Bell, Sophia Myles, Claire Forlani, Ciarán Hinds, Maurice Roëves) – Classic Movie Review 3055

Co-writer/director David Mackenzie’s 2007 movie stars Jamie Bell as weird 17-year-old Hallam Foe, who can’t stop missing his mother after her overdose of sleeping pills and suicide drowning in a lake near their house in Edinburgh. […]

Nov, 13

The Bride of Frankenstein ***** (1935, Boris Karloff, Colin Clive, Ernest Thesiger, Elsa Lanchester, Una O’Connor, Valerie Hobson, Gavin Gordon, Dwight Frye, Douglas Walton, E E Clive) – Classic Movie Review 32

Director James Whale’s 1935 sequel to his 1931 Frankenstein arguably turned out to be even better than the original, and confidently stakes its claim to being THE classic horror film of all time. Ernest Thesiger etches […]

Jul, 08

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