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Catherine the Great [The Rise of Catherine the Great] *** (1934, Douglas Fairbanks Jr, Elisabeth Bergner, Flora Robson) – Classic Movie Review 8155

The great style of the German-born Catherine II, Empress of Russia from 1762 to 1796, captures the sympathy of the Russians in producer Alexander Korda’s typically lavish, costly version of the tale, intriguingly scripted from […]

Feb, 20

Second Act ** (2018, Jennifer Lopez, Vanessa Hudgens, Leah Remini, Treat Williams) – Movie Review

Jennifer Lopez is game and looks good, but director Peter Segal ‘s unrealistic, old-fashioned mix of the sassy, sexy and syrupy really just doesn’t work very well. Second Act (2018) tries to mix three different stories, […]

Jan, 30

Love & Sex *** (2000, Famke Janssen, Jon Favreau, Noah Emmerich) – Classic Movie Review 8008

Writer-director Valerie Breiman’s delicious 2000 romantic comedy drama Love & Sex stars Famke Janssen and Jon Favreau. Janssen plays a magazine journalist called Kate Welles who ditches her companion at an art exhibition for a painter […]

Jan, 13

Welcome to Marwen **** (2018, Steve Carell, Leslie Mann, Merritt Wever, Falk Hentschel, Matt O’Leary) – Movie Review

Co-writer/ director Robert Zemeckis’s Welcome to Marwen follows the story of Mark Hogancamp (Steve Carell) who has been smashed up by five men and left for dead in a hate crime. They called him ‘queer’ […]

Jan, 03

Mary Queen of Scots ** (2018, Saoirse Ronan, Margot Robbie, Jack Lowden, Adrian Lester, Guy Pearce, Joe Alwyn, James McArdle, David Tennant) – Movie Review

Director Josie Rourke’s modern re-interpretation of the tragic historical story of Mary Queen of Scots is vivid and ambitious. Unfortunately, it is not a happy, feel-good story, and the film is more on the interesting […]

Dec, 13

Faces Places [Visages villages] **** (2017, Agnès Varda, JR) – Movie Review

French New Wave film director Agnes Varda and young idealist photographer/ mural artist JR journey in a van through rural France, taking pictures and creating art, while forming a devoted unlikely if friendship. The van […]

Dec, 10

Wildlife **** (2018, Jake Gyllenhaal, Carey Mulligan, Ed Oxenbould, Bill Camp) – Movie Review

Actor Paul Dano’s directorial debut is Wildlife (2018), in which a misfit teenage boy called Joe Brinson (Ed Oxenbould) witnesses his parents’ marriage falling apart after his frustrated father Jerry (Jake Gyllenhaal) loses his job as a golf […]

Sep, 30

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