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Aquarius **** (2016, Sonia Braga, Maeve Jinkings, Irandhir Santos) – Movie Review

Brazilian film-maker Kleber Mendonca Filho’s  exceptional 2016 film boasts a career high performance from Sonia Braga (Kiss of the Spider Woman, 1985). She plays 65-year old widowed retired music critic Clara, the last resident of […]

Dec, 21

Spring and Port Wine **** (1970, James Mason, Diana Coupland, Susan George, Rodney Bewes, Hannah Gordon, Adrienne Posta, Arthur Lowe) – Classic Movie Review 6,322

The 1970 British kitchen sink drama film Spring and Port Wine is based on a hit stage play by Bill Naughton, and provides a grand role for James Mason as a North West England father who attempts to assert his […]

Nov, 27

Sentimental Journey ** (1946, John Payne, Maureen O’Hara, William Bendix, Cedric Hardwicke, Connie Marshall) – Classic Movie Review 6312

Director Walter Lang’s 1946 drama is true to its title, and then some. It is an outrageously unabashed, very sentimental and shamefully mawkish tearjerker about a dying Broadway actress who adopts a child to keep […]

Nov, 25

Fear Eats the Soul [Angst Essen Seele Auf] ***** (1973, Brigitte Mira, El Hedi ben Salem, Irm Hermann, Barbara Valentin) – Classic Movie Review 6198

Writer-director Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s 1973 drama is one of his greatest films, a straightforward account of an unlikely love affair between a 60-year-old Munich charlady (the splendid Brigitte Mira) and a 30-year-old Moroccan immigrant worker […]

Nov, 06

Young at Heart **** (1954, Doris Day, Frank Sinatra, Ethel Barrymore, Gig Young, Dorothy Malone, Robert Keith, Elizabeth Fraser, Alan Hale Jr) – Classic Movie Review 6083

‘Fairy tales can come true, it could happen to you…’ Sinatra stars as songwriter Barney Sloan, who romances New England maiden Laurie Tuttle (Doris Day), in director Gordon Douglas’s highly appealing, attractive 1954 musical remake […]

Oct, 11

The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] **** (1974, Monique Mélinand, Hubert Deschamps, Philippe Léotard, Nathalie Baye) – Classic Movie Review 6052

Director Maurice Pialat’s 1974 French drama film The Mouth Agape [La Gueule Ouverte] is a realist depiction of a woman undergoing the late stages of a terminal illness, going through several deeply emotional moments. Monique Mélinand plays […]

Sep, 30

Burnt Offerings ** (1976, Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Burgess Meredith Lee H Montgomery, Eileen Heckart) – Classic Movie Review 6038

The 1976 American mystery horror film Burnt Offerings is co-written and directed by Dan Curtis, and stars Karen Black, Oliver Reed, Bette Davis, Lee H Montgomery, Eileen Heckart and Burgess Meredith, as yet another American family moves into yet another […]

Sep, 23

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