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- Hand in Hand *** (1960, Loretta Parry, Philip Needs, Sybil Thorndike, John Gregson, Finlay Currie, Derek Sydney, Miriam Karlin, Kathleen Byron) – Classic Movie Review 13,327
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The Mad Genius *** (1931, John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, Donald Cook, Charles Butterworth, Boris Karloff, Frankie Darro) – Classic Movie Review 12,691
Michael Curtiz’s hysterical, wildly entertaining 1931 Warner Bros drama film The Mad Genius stars John Barrymore as crippled puppeteer who turns a boy into a great ballet dancer who falls in love with a young […]
Monkey on My Back *** (1957, Cameron Mitchell, Dianne Foster, Jack Albertson, Paul Richards) – Classic Movie Review 8920
Director André de Toth’s 1957 Monkey on My Back is a downbeat but compelling biopic about the rise and fall of champion boxer, World War Two war hero and morphine addict Barney Ross. It is […]
Lenny **** (1974, Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner) – Classic Movie Review 8441
Dustin Hoffman sizzles in one of his finest performances as controversial, self destructive Jewish club stand up comedian Lenny Bruce in the 1974 biopic Lenny, brilliantly directed by Bob Fosse and shot in dazzling, chic […]
La Luna **** (1979, Jill Clayburgh, Matthew Barry, Renato Salvatori, Tomas Milian, Alida Valli, Fred Gwynne, Roberto Benigni, Veronica Lazar) – Classic Movie Review 7835
Director Bernardo Bertolucci’s 1979 incestuous relationship drama La Luna is a frank exploration of the emotional and sexual bonds of a recently-widowed American mother and her teenage son while touring in Italy. Though the film […]
Captive ** (2015, Kate Mara, David Oyelowo, Mimi Rogers, Michael K Williams, Leonor Varela) – Movie Review
Life-affirming, uplifting entertainment has its place but it needs a tougher, grittier, more rigorous, challenging edge. Kate Mara plays real-life single mother drug user Ashley Smith who is held captive in her home by Brian Nichols (David Oyelowo) on […]
Playing God *** (1997, David Duchovny, Timothy Hutton, Angelina Jolie, Peter Stormare) – Classic Movie Review 2134
The truth is out here – somewhere – in director Andy Wilson’s spicy 1997 thriller. David Duchovny enjoys a modicum of success in this brave change-of-pace away from the X-Files, playing Dr Eugene Sands a […]
The Basketball Diaries **** (1995, Leonardo DiCaprio, Lorraine Bracco, Marilyn Sokol, Mark Wahlberg, Juliette Lewis, Michael Imperioli, Bruno Kirby) – Classic Movie Review 815
Jim Carroll’s unflinching 1978 memoirs of his brutal New York streetlife adolescence in the Sixties, which emerged through both literature and music, are reinterpreted, rivetingly if rather hesitantly and shakily, on film here in director […]